A year ago, Bennett Stirtz was a guard at Northwest Missouri ... Stirtz made history for the Drake men's basketball team in the NCAA Tournament, helping the Bulldogs defeat the Missouri Tigers ...

IOWA CITY — Three days after playing Texas Tech with a spot in the Sweet 16 on the line, Bennett Stirtz was walking to his accounting class at Drake University. "Grind doesn’t stop," Stirtz ...

IOWA CITY — Bennett Stirtz will no longer test NBA Draft waters and is turning ... starting at Division II Northwest Missouri ...

But that's who Bennett Stirtz is, and that's who Larry Bird was, and two of the most statistically accomplished players in Missouri Valley Conference history are now overlapping more and more. Stirtz ...

Bennett Stirtz led the Drake Bulldogs with 21 points and four assists in the team's 67-57 win over Missouri in the NCAA ...