You won't jump on the bandwagon for 20 in a row? Well then there are still many reasons why you should.
1) Drake beat Iowa on the road. An in-state rival as well as a Big-10 team. Decent win.
2) Drake beat Creighton in OT on the road in front of 17,000 fans (Creighton is 13th in the nation for attendance). I was there for the game and hostile would be an understatement of the environment. People should have started to give Drake credit after this win if they hadn't already.
3) Drake just completed a very impressive 3 game win streak against Creighton (again), Indiana State (road) and then Illinois State (road). Alone this may not be that great but consider that they played all these games in a 7 day span and that many experts have Illinois State as a tournament bound team.
4) Emmenecker, Young, Cox, Houston, Korver. Not enough for you? Four of the five average 10+ per game and the other, Adam Emmenecker, leads the Valley in assists. They may not have that one go to guy that will put the team on his shoulders for the whole year but thats fantastic because they have 5 that can take any game over.
Drake has pretty good wins when you actually look at it plus they have beaten quality opponents on the road. Experts keep waiting for them to slip up so they can say "See, told you they weren't that good," but Drake won't let that happen. They have risen to every challenge they have faced and this is why you should jump on the bandwagon.
PS- I go to Drake and have been a fan ever since I arrived on campus. I can attest to what LionHawk mentioned about these guys being Students first. I see them in class every day, they don't use a game or travel as an excuse to let their studies slip. Dr. Tom and his son, Keno, deserve some of the credit as they have never challeged Drake's 2.0 GPA rule which is stricter than the NCAA standard. In fact they embrace it and ensure their athletes are true students as well.
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