ST. LOUIS -- No. 2 seeded Drake shot 56 percent, including 66.7 percent in the second half, rolling to a 77-51 victory past top-seeded Bradley to claim the championship of the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament at the Enterprise on Sunday (March 5).
The Bulldogs, avenging a 73-61 setback at Bradley last Sunday which cost them a share of the MVC regular season title, punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament for the sixth time in school history.
Drake, winning its third straight game, improved its record to 27-7 — the second most single-season wins in school history only trailing the 2007-08 squad which went 28-5 en route to winning the school's first MVC Tournament championship.