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OSU basketball: Austopsy confirms Tyrek Coger died of natural causes

STILLWATER — The Oklahoma medical examiner's office confirmed the cause of death for former Oklahoma State basketball player Tyrek Coger in a final autopsy released Friday.

It states Coger, 22, suffered from cardiomegaly with left ventricular hypertrophy — an enlarged heart and thickened left ventricle — when he collapsed July 21 after a workout in Stillwater, the same initial findings the medical examiner's office provided. Coger's manner of death is listed as "natural."

The new report also finds Coger had accumulation of fluid in the brain that also contributed to his passing.

Coger — a 6-foot-9 forward from Cape Fear Community College (N.