VALPARAISO, Ind. – The Drake University men's basketball team led by four of its student-athletes from The Region fended off Valparaiso, 71-65 in its final road game of the regular season inside ARC on Wednesday night.
"It was a 40 minute grinder for us," head coach Darian Devries said. If you go 1-for-10 from beyond the arc on the road and are able to pull out a win, it means you did a lot of other good things right."
Both teams got off to a slow offensive start. The Bulldogs (21-9, 12-5 in Missouri Valley Conference) took advantage of a Valpo (13-16, 6-11) turnover with 12:43 left in the opening half when D.