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ball, has called Meyer "truly one of the best teachers in the history of the game."
• Jerry Meyer played for his dad at Lipscomb from 1989-1992, and credits his dad's success with a seamless, on-and off-court philosophy that lent itself to an exciting game.
• "He was a tough coach to play for, very demanding physical and mentally. But that's what made him a great coach, and that's why all his players, he influenced their lives so much and produced so many coaches," Jerry Meyer said.
• Lipscomb athletic director Philip Hutcheson, who also played for Meyer there, said it wasn't hard to see the coach's legacy at the school -- "that's well-established and it's enormous." What's difficult, Hutcheson said, is "trying to determine where his impact ended."
• Praise also came from opponents, including Nebraska coach Tim Miles, who coached against Meyer at Northern State.
• "It didn't matter if you were friend or foe," Miles once said. "He would open up his playbook and show you his plays, and then he would turn around and beat you with that same play when your team played his."
• Krzyzewski on Sunday said Meyer shared his knowledge with coaches and "helped the game become better at every level."
• "His players benefited from his teachings both on and off the court," Krzyzewski said. "His goal was for them to be successful as players and as men."
• Summitt also paid tribute to Meyer on Sunday.
• "My heart goes out to the family of my dear friend, Don Meyer," Summitt wrote on her Twitter account. "May we celebrate his life as a man of integrity and a legend in our game."
• Meyer kept coaching after being critically injured in traffic accident in September 2008. He was alone in a compact car, leading a caravan of vehicles heading to an annual team retreat, when he collided head-on with a grain truck. Multiple operations followed to remove Meyer's spleen, repair cracked ribs and deal with a mangled left leg that had to be amputated below the knee.
• He would later call the accident a blessing, because doctors also found cancer in his liver and small intestines.
• Four months later -- while coaching from a wheelchair -- he became the winningest men's basketball coach on Jan. 10, 2009. Yet always the humble teacher, Meyer noted during the postgame huddle defensive lapses on some 3-pointers.
• "How selfish it would be if I was celebrating all this stuff and they were trying to be a better team," he said at the time.
• But a few minutes after the historic victory, Meyer finally smiled -- and thought of his wife.

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