The Basics
The Drake men's basketball team as the No. 2 seed ventures to St. Louis for the 2023 State Farm MVC Tournament hosted at the Enterprise Center March 2-5.
Broadcast Information
Saturday's semifinal round will be broadcasted live on CBS Sports Network and the championship game on Sunday will air live on CBS with Kevin Harlan, Dan Bonner and Evan Washburn.
102.1/1350 ESPN Des Moines is the radio home of Drake men's basketball with Michael Admire back to describe the play-by-play with Paul Doerrfeld providing analysis.
Larry Bird Trophy
For the sixth time in history and the first time since Adam Emmenecker in 2008, a Drake men's basketball student-athlete took home the honor of Larry Bird Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year with sophomore swingman
Tucker DeVries being presented the Larry Bird trophy at the MVC men's basketball awards banquet on Wednesday, March 1.
DeVries became the fifth-ever Drake player to earn the honor. He joined Emmenecker, Curt Smith, Lewis Lloyd (twice) and Jeff Halliburton as the only Drake student-athletes to hoist the Larry Bird trophy. DeVries was the MVC Preseason Player of the Year and has averaged 18.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.9 assists over the course of 30 games this season.
Roman Penn received the third-most first place votes for the Larry Bird Trophy behind DeVries and Bradley's Rienk Mast.
2022-23 All-MVC Honors
Tucker DeVries: Larry Bird Trophy/All-MVC 1st Team
Roman Penn: All-MVC 1st Team
Garrett Sturtz: All-MVC 3rd Team
Conor Enright: MVC All-Freshman Team/Scholar Athlete Honorable Mention
Darnell Brodie: MVC Most Improved Team
Sardaar Calhoun: MVC All-Bench Team
Drake at Arch Madness
Drake is 25-43 all-time in the MVC Tournament with its last and only tourney title coming in 2008. The Bulldogs have gone 6-4 in the last four editions of the tournament with back-to-back championship game appearances.
Prior to the 2019-20 season, the Bulldogs only had one MVC Tournament win since 2013.
Drake is the No. 2 seed for the third time in program history. The Bulldogs are 4-2 all-time as the MVC Tournament No. 2 seed.
