Head coach Dick Peth led the tradition-rich Wartburg men's basketball program to back-to-back Iowa Conference championships in 2004-05 and 2005-06 and a record-setting fifth consecutive season of 20-plus wins in 2004-05. The 2005 IIAC Coach of the Year, he has also earned other accolades at the helm of the program including the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association's Paul Maaske award in 2005 and 2000, D3News Coach of the Month honors in 2001-02, and the IIAC COTY award following the 2000-01 season.

He has compiled a 190-100 mark with the Knights. During his tenure, Wartburg’s program has also captured three Iowa Conference championships (2000-01/2004-05/2005-06)and earned an NCAA Division III national tournament berth (2001). On Feb. 3, 2007, he became the 33rd active head coach to reach 400 wins in NCAA Division III.

Before coming to Wartburg, Peth was head coach at the University of Denver, an NCAA Division II school, posting a 221-123 record in 12 years. He played for former University of Iowa men's basketball coach Lute Olson from 1975 to 1979, captaining the 1979 team that won the Big 10 title and made it to the NCAA postseason tournament. Peth was recently ranked second on a list of the top 10 greatest high school players ever in the La Crosse, Wisconsin, area by the La Crosse Tribune.

Oliver Drake
Drake helped lead the Knights to their 20th and 21st Iowa Conference championships as an assistant and recruiting coordinator in 2004-05 and 2005-06. He's been an integral part of the program's 42-11 overall and 27-5 conference record over the last two seasons.

A native of Neillsville, WI, he has held assistant basketball positions at UW-Eau Claire and Eau Claire Memorial High School and was one of the youngest head boys basketball coaches in state history when he led Cadott High School as an undergraduate for two years. He has also been involved with numerous camps around the country including Five Star, Morgan Wooten, Northwestern University (IL), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Snow Valley Basketball School, UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stevens Point, South Dakota, Hoosier Basketball School and North Dakota State.