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The Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Drake University, which is located in Des Moines, Iowa, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Their official uniform colors are blue and white, their mascot is Spike, and their home games are played at the 7,002 capacity Knapp Center, which is built in 1992 and located in Des Moines, Iowa.
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About The Drake Bulldogs
Their first season of men's basketball was during the 1907-08 season, and Drake played that first year as an independent. During the 1908-09 season they were charter members of the Missouri Valley Conference, and during the 1943-44 and 1944-45 seasons there was no Missouri Valley Conference play because of World War II. Drake withdrew as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference in 1951, along with Bradley as a result of the lack of action taken by the Missouri Valley Conference against Oklahoma A&M in the Johnny Bright Incident, and they would not compete in the Missouri Valley Conference again until the 1956-57 season. Mark Phelps is the team's current coach, who was previously an assistant at Arizona State, hired after the 2007-08 season.
He replaced Keno Davis, who left for Providence after one season as head coach at Drake, in which the Bulldogs finished 28-5 and Davis won multiple national Coach of the Year awards.
