Larry Cotlar loved Drake University men’s basketball, it appears. Enough to visit Peoria whenever the Bulldogs played Bradley the past 13 years.
Cotlar, the radio play-by-play voice of Drake hoops, was killed Saturday during a flash flood in Des Moines, Iowa, where the university is located. He was 66.
According to The Des Moines Register, Cotlar was inside a van that stalled on rain-swollen streets. When he exited the van, the water swept him away.
Cotlar was a longtime Des Moines radio personality who most recently was host of a weekly show on KRNT-AM (1350).