2024–25 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team

2024–25 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball
MVC regular season & tournament champions
Charleston Classic champions
NCAA tournament, Second Round
ConferenceMissouri Valley Conference
Record31–4 (17–3 MVC)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Josh Sash
  • Bryston Williams
  • Connor Wheeler
  • Jesse Shaw
  • Xavier Kurth
Home arenaKnapp Center
2024–25 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Drake 17 3   .850 31 4   .886
Bradley 15 5   .750 28 9   .757
Northern Iowa 14 6   .700 20 13   .606
Belmont 13 7   .650 22 11   .667
Illinois State 10 10   .500 22 14   .611
UIC 10 10   .500 17 14   .548
Murray State 9 11   .450 16 17   .485
Southern Illinois 8 12   .400 14 19   .424
Indiana State 8 12   .400 14 18   .438
Evansville 8 12   .400 11 21   .344
Valparaiso 6 14   .300 15 19   .441
Missouri State 2 18   .100 9 23   .281
2025 MVC tournament winner

The 2024–25 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Drake University in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by Ben McCollum in his only season as head coach, played their home games at the Knapp Center in Des Moines, Iowa as members of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). They finished the regular season 27–3, 17–3 in MVC play to win the school's first outright conference title since the 2007–08 season. In the MVC tournament, the seed and defeated Southern Illinois, Belmont, and Bradley to win the tournament championship. As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, their third straight appearance. There the defeated Missouri in the First Round marking the school's first NCAA tournament win since 1971. In the second round, they lost to Texas Tech.

On March 24, 2025, head coach Ben McCollum left the team to take the head coach position at Iowa. On March 28, the school named South Dakota State head coach Eric Henderson the team's new head coach.