Before Ben McCollum headed north to Iowa to coach Drake and then the Hawkeyes, he played and coached college basketball at Northwest Missouri State.
McCollum had tremendous success at the Division II level, amassing a career record of 395-91 and four Division II National Championships in 15 years with Northwest Missouri State.
On his one-year stop with the Drake Bulldogs program (2024-2025), he turned a lot of those same Division II guys into champions and earned an NCAA Tournament berth…