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College Basketball's Top 25 Coaches

In an effort to talk about something college basketball-related other than scandals in the summer, let's talk best current coaches. We'll attempt to order the top 25 current coaches in the nation. This is about the present and the future, not the distant past. What a guy did in the mid-90s doesn't matter near as much as...

Arizona State Assistant Mark Phelps Is New Drake Head Coach

With Keno Davis off to Providence after one wildly successful season as the Bulldogs head coach, Drake had to find someone to try and ensure it would be less than 37 years before their next NCAA Tournament appearance. They've settled on Mark Phelps, an assistant under Herb Sendek at Arizona State and North Carolina State...

Drake's Keno Davis Named Coach of the Year

It'll be hard for Keno Davis to top his first year on the bench as a head coach. Drake improved from 17-15 to 28-5 and swept the regular season and tournament titles in the Missouri Valley Conference. That meant the Bulldogs made their first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1971 and won a school-record 21 straight games...

Is Drake's Bid Really a Piece of Cake?

Drake won 20 of their first 21 games because of the way they closed out games. They made their shots and made their stops down the stretches of games and that turned a team with average talent into a world beater. In two of their last three games, though, the Bulldogs haven't been quite so steely in the final minutes....

Why Drake's Loss Matters

On the surface of it, Drake's 65-62 loss to Southern Illinois would only seem to matter to purveyors of 2008 MVC Champion t-shirts. If the Bulldogs had won in Carbondale, they would have clinched the conference title but will now have to wait until Saturday at Northern Iowa, if not longer. Drake had a simple defensive...

KenoDavis News From the Web

05/14/12 Central Michigan (SID): Former SEMO Assistant Fills... Source: The Mid-Majority Former Southeast Missouri State men's basketball assistant Kyle Gerdeman has been hired to fill out Keno Davis' coaching staff at Central Michigan.
05/14/12 Keno Davis embraces fresh start at Central Michigan Source: The Des Moines Register - Des Moines IA The only career mementos that mark Keno Davis new, windowless office at Central Michigan University are three coaching awards from the year that changed his life.
04/27/12 Catching up with Keno: New men's basketball coach... Source: Central Michigan Life - Central Michigan Univ. - Mount Pleasant MI Keno Davis said he was getting about three hours of sleep a night â and it showed.
04/27/12 Central Michigan (SID): Davis Inks Ypsilanti Point... Source: The Mid-Majority Less than a month into his tenure at the helm of the Central Michigan men's basketball program, Keno Davis has landed his first recruit, receiving a National Letter of Intent from point guard Derrick Richardson.
04/26/12 Central Michigan basketball: Keno Davis secures third... Source: Detroit Free Press - Detroit MI Central Michigan coach Keno Davis is making a swift impression in his short time on the job.