DePaul was a national power during those glory years, advancing to the NCAA Elite Eight in 1978 and to the Final Four in 1979. “I enjoyed every game we won,” Meyer said the other day.

Joey Meyer died Friday at 74 after dealing with serious health issues — cancer among them — in recent years. We became friends during DePaul’s run to the 1979 Final Four, when Joey was the ...

Curtis Watkins, a member of DePaul University’s 1979 Final Four basketball team, is dead at age 51. Watkins died of a blocked artery at his home in the Chicago suburb of Harvey, his daughter ...

When DePaul honored Meyer’s 1979 NCAA Final Four team 20 years later, the coach -- who was as popular around Chicago as Mike Ditka or Michael Jordan would become -- refused to attend the 1999 ...

Former DePaul basketball coach Ray Meyer dies at 92. ... He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979. He retired in 1984 and his son, Joey, took over, ...

Cummings’ 1979-1982 seasons set a foundation for DePaul basketball for years to come. Although the program hasn’t been able to reach those expectations in over a decade, the former All ...

Longtime DePaul basketball coach Joey Meyer died at the age of 74 on Friday afternoon, the school announced. At the helm of the basketball program for 13 years, Meyer racked up 231 wins with a ...