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Senate Resolution 145

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2           BY  HATCH, McCOY, ZAUN, and DEARDEN
  1  3 A Resolution to honor the Drake University men's basketball
  1  4    coach Keno Davis.
  1  5    WHEREAS, Coach Keno Davis began his career by
  1  6 serving six years as assistant coach at Southeast
  1  7 Missouri State University, and in 2003 joined his
  1  8 legendary father, Dr. Tom Davis, as part of the Drake
  1  9 men's basketball coaching staff; and
  1 10    WHEREAS, building on the work of his father, Keno
  1 11 Davis assumed the head coaching position in 2007 and
  1 12 immediately led the team to its first appearance in
  1 13 NCAA's national tournament since 1971, defeating
  1 14 Illinois State University 79=49 in the Missouri Valley
  1 15 Conference championship game; and
  1 16    WHEREAS, the Bulldogs, with that victory in the
  1 17 Missouri Valley Conference tournament, and with a
  1 18 record of 28 wins and 4 losses, became one of the top
  1 19 20 basketball teams in the nation; and
  1 20    WHEREAS, Coach Maury John, who took the Drake
  1 21 University men's basketball team to the NCAA Final
  1 22 Four in 1969 and the Midwest Regional final in 1970
  1 23 and 1971, would be proud to see the talent, the
  1 24 dedication, and the fire of today's team and the young
  1 25 coach who has taken them so far and so fast; and
  1 26    WHEREAS, just completing his first year as head
  1 27 coach, Keno Davis has been named the Missouri Valley
  1 28 Conference Coach of the Year and The Sporting News
  1 29 College Basketball Coach of the Year and was given the
  1 30 Henry Iba Coach of the Year Award by the U.S.
  2  1 Basketball Writers Association; and
  2  2    WHEREAS, Keno Davis has been named the Associated
  2  3 Press National Coach of the Year for 2007=2008, only
  2  4 the third first=year coach to win that award; NOW
  2  5 THEREFORE,
  2  6    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  2  7 honors Coach Keno Davis, a worthy successor to his
  2  8 father and to the memory of Maury John, for being
  2  9 named coach of the year by both the Missouri Valley
  2 10 Conference and Sporting News; and
  2 11    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the
  2 12 Senate thanks Coach Davis for the honor he has brought
  2 13 to Drake University, to Bulldog fans everywhere, and
  2 14 to his home state of Iowa.
  2 15 LSB 6603SS 82
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