St. Louis, Mo. - In a season full of resilient performances, the Drake University men's basketball team delivered one of its most impressive showings with a 78-62 win over Illinois State in the quarterfinals of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Friday evening.
The regular-season MVC Champion Bulldogs entered Friday's game with a roster of just seven scholarship players due to injury. With 11:12 left in the first half the team's depth got even more shallow as Nick McGlynn, the league's reigning Defensive Player of the Year who finished second in Player of the Year voting went down with a knee injury.