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• "I haven't had this much fun since Carmen and I were married," he told the crowd of 6,654, standing on his right leg and leaning against the scorer's table as streamers and confetti drifted to the floor.
• He was honored in July 2009 with ESPN's Jimmy V Perseverance Award, named for former North Carolina State coach Jimmy Valvano, who died in 1993 from cancer. Meyer also was given the John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in August 2010.
• Meyer was a standout baseball and basketball player at Northern Colorado. He graduated in 1967 then began his head coaching career with three seasons at Hamline in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1972.
• He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to coach 24 seasons at Lipscomb -- earning NAIA coach of the year twice and leading the Bison to the 1986 title. He took over at Northern State in 1999, and two years later started a run of seven straight 20-win seasons.
• Meyer compiled records of 37-41 at Hamline, 665-179 at Lipscomb, and 221-104 at Northern State.
• He'd had other health problems in recent years, including surgery in August 2012 to implant a heart pacemaker. That came after doctors replaced three of Meyer's heart valves with mechanical ones and repaired a hole in his heart.
• Funeral arrangements are pending, Dreyer said. Memorial services will be held at Lipscomb University and Northern State University, according to a statement from Lipscomb University.
• He is survived by his wife and three children. His son Jerry said: "He competed to the very end, literally."
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• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- The University of South Dakota and Sanford Health will be hosting a symposium that will address advances in biomedical research.
• The event will take place Monday at the university's campus in Vermillion.
• USD officials say eight speakers from Sanford Research and the university's Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences will talk about research activities and pending innovations on their field.
• The university says the state's biomedical industry has seen a significant growth in recent years.
• More information on the symposium can be found at the medical school's website: www.usd.edu/medical-school
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