Drake’s Bennett Stirtz has been named the MVC Larry Bird Player of the Year and head coach Ben McCollum was named Coach of the Year among multiple honors awarded to the Bulldogs, the league announced ...

Bennett Stirtz won the Missouri Valley Conference's Larry Bird Trophy, marking 3 straight years of a Drake men's basketball ...

Players like Larry Bird, Grant Hill, and Chris Webber faced ... Surgeries helped, but he lost his quickness and explosiveness. By 1980, his knees couldn’t take it anymore, and he retired at ...

"There's just so many names that people can recognize with," Bird surmised. "And I think that's why they think it was the best time. And to me. I always felt our '86 team — how could you get anything ...

An oral history of Memphis State's 1985 Final Four run starts with Part 1: How that Tigers team was built and the vibe that ...

Celtics legend Larry Bird became the first player to hit one during the All-Star Game (1980) and won the league’s first three three-point contests (1986, 1987 and 1988). During this time in the late ...

The Celtics have had numerous greats don the green and white, from Bob Cousy and Larry Bird to Kevin Garnett and ... each other at a basketball camp in 1980, never got the opportunity to face ...

Well, maybe Larry Bird, who I saw at Indiana State playing ... Mike Finn, Memphis State basketball sports information director, 1980-88: I’m sure people have told you the story that Dana Kirk ...

For the third consecutive season, Drake University’s men’s basketball program has showcased its dominance. They did so in the ...