Jamie Dixon
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | TCU |
| Conference | Big 12 |
| Record | 14–3 |
| Annual salary | $3.2 Million |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
November 10, 1965 North Hollywood, California |
| Playing career | |
| 1984–1987 | TCU |
| 1989–1990 | Hawke's Bay Hawks |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1989 | Te Aute College |
| 1989–1991 | LA Valley CC (assistant) |
| 1991–1992 | UC Santa Barbara (assistant) |
| 1992–1994 | Hawaii (assistant) |
| 1994–1998 | Northern Arizona (assistant) |
| 1998–1999 | Hawaii (assistant) |
| 1999–2003 | Pittsburgh (assistant) |
| 2003–2016 | Pittsburgh |
| 2016–present | TCU |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 342–126 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2× Big East regular season championship (2004, 2011) Big East Tournament championship (2008) Gold medal – FIBA Under-19 World Championship (2009) |
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| Awards | |
| Big East Coach of the Year (2004) Naismith College Coach of the Year (2009) USA Basketball National Coach of the Year (2009) Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year (2010) Sporting News Coach of the Year (2011) |
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James Patrick Dixon II (born November 10, 1965) is an American basketball coach and the current head coach of the TCU Horned Frogs men's basketball team. He previously served as the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh men's basketball team from 2003 through 2016.
In 2009 he was the head coach for the FIBA Under-19 2009 gold-medal winning United States national basketball team for which he was named the 2009 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year. Dixon was named Big East Coach of the Year in 2004, Naismith College Coach of the Year in 2009, Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year in 2010, and the Sporting News National Coach of the Year award in 2011. Dixon played college basketball at Texas Christian University, was selected by the Washington Bullets in the 1987 NBA draft, and played professionally with the Continental Basketball Association's Lacrosse Catbirds and for Hawke's Bay Hawks of the New Zealand National Basketball League.
Dixon began his coaching career in 1989 as the head coach at Te Aute College, a secondary school in New Zealand, before serving as an assistant at Los Angeles Valley College from 1989–1991. He then became an assistant coach at UC-Santa Barbara and then at the University of Hawaii. Dixon then served as an assistant under Ben Howland at Northern Arizona University. After a brief stint as an assistant at Hawaii under Riley Wallace, he was reunited with Howland at Pitt in 1999. Dixon was promoted as Pittsburgh's head coach when Howland left for UCLA following the 2002–03 season.
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