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April 4, 2008
 
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Keno Davis is the recipient of the 2008 Hugh Durham Coach of the Year Award presented by CollegeInsider.com.BOSTON (MA) -- After leading Drake to a 28-5 mark and the schools first trip to the NCAA tournament since 1971, Keno Davis has been selected the recipient of the 2008 Hugh Durham Coach of the Year Award.

The award, which is voted on by a 20-member selection panel that includes current and former head coaches and is chaired by Hugh Durham, is presented annually at the Final Four to the top Mid-Major Coach in America.

Davis was also one of ten finalists for the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year, also presented by CollegeInsider.com

“Keno did an incredible job this season,” says CollegeInsider.com’s Matt Drake. “His team dominated one of the stronger conferences in college basketball and he did it with walk-ons and players not highly recruited. It’s one of the best jobs anyone has done in recent memory.”

Davis took a team picked to finish ninth in the Missouri Valley Conference preseason poll and guided Drake to both the regular-season crown and league tournament title.

Under Davis, Drake was nationally ranked in both the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll for a school-record eight straight weeks, including a No. 14 rating in the latest poll released on March 18.

Racing off to a 16-1 start, the Bulldogs cracked the top 25 polls for the first time on Jan. 21, being rated No. 22 in the Associated Press poll and No. 23 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll. That marked the first top 25 appearances by a Drake team since the Bulldogs were ranked No. 16 in the Associated Press poll during the last three weeks of the 1974-75 campaign.

The Bulldogs' ascent to the top of the Missouri Valley Conference was all the more remarkable considering Davis inherited a 17-15 team in which graduation claimed four senior starters.

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