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
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Drake173 .850314  .886
Bradley155 .750289  .757
Northern Iowa146 .7002013  .606
Belmont137 .6502211  .667
Illinois State1010 .5002214  .611
UIC1010 .5001714  .548
Murray State911 .4501617  .485
Southern Illinois812 .4001419  .424
Indiana State812 .4001418  .438
Evansville812 .4001121  .344
Valparaiso614 .3001519  .441
Missouri State218 .100923  .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.