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Drake Is Finding The Spotlight
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Six of Drake's last eight conference games are on the road. There will also be a bracket-buster game at Butler, another one-loss team. All of which means there is still a lot of work to do.
"And now we're the hunted because we're in first place," Keno Davis said of his team's three-game lead in the MVC. "But the amazing thing about this team is that with each success, we seem to get a little calmer. We've never talked about goals; we've just practiced hard every day and played about as well as we can every game."
For now, everyone at Drake is trying to enjoy the ride. Tom Davis, who admits watching is harder than coaching, has enjoyed Keno's success as much as any he had himself. Keno misses his dad on the bench but talks to him almost daily about everything from practice schedules to pregame meals to the pressures of winning.
"I saw them play Wisconsin-Milwaukee on the road early in the season," Pawlowski said. "They blew them out. I noticed even in warmups how many guys they had who could really shoot. I told some of my friends at work, 'Watch out for Drake this year.' They laughed at me. Now I'm getting e-mails saying, 'Why aren't they ranked higher?' "
Every year since he graduated, Pawlowski has kept his calendar clear for the week the NCAA tournament begins just in case he needed to fly to a first-round site to watch Drake. He hasn't needed to make a plane reservation . . . yet.
"This may finally be the year," he said.
It might well be. And it all came about because a son wanted the chance to work for his dad.
