Jamie Dixon
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| Jamie Dixon | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | Pittsburgh | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| Team record | 6-0 | |
| Born | November 10, 1965 | |
| Place of birth |  Burbank, California |
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| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 137-39 | |
| Championships | ||
| Big East Regular Season Championship (2004) | ||
| Awards | ||
| Big East Coach of the Year (2004) | ||
| Playing career | ||
| 1984–1987 | TCU | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1989–1991 1991–1992 1992–1994 1994–1998 1998–1999 1999–2003 2003–present |
Los Angeles Valley CC UC Santa Barbara (asst.) Hawaii (asst.) Northern Arizona (asst.) Hawaii (asst.) Pittsburgh (asst.) Pittsburgh |
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Jamie Dixon (b. November 10, 1965, in Burbank, California) is head coach of the University of Pittsburgh men's basketball team.
He first became a head coach at the University of Pittsburgh in 2003, and has an overall NCAA Division I record of 138-40. His 105 victories are the second most by a college head coach in the first four years of their career. Previously he was an assistant coach to Ben Howland at Northern Arizona University and Pittsburgh. When Howland left Pittsburgh following the 2002-03 season to become head coach at UCLA, Dixon was promoted.
Dixon is a 1987 graduate of Texas Christian University. He was also an assistant coach at UC-Santa Barbara and the University of Hawaii.
He won Big East Coach of the Year in 2004, and he took Pittsburgh to finals of the Big East Men's Basketball Tournament in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008, winning in 2008 against #1 seed Georgetown. He has won 20+ games five times (2004-08), and has been to the NCAA tournament each year as well. In the 2006-07 season, he led the Panthers to the Sweet 16 where they lost to UCLA, coached by his former mentor Howland. This was Pittsburgh's second Sweet 16 appearance under Dixon, also reaching the round of sixteen in 2004.
On March 25, 2006 Dixon agreed to terms of a contract extension to be Pitt's head coach until the 2012-13 season.
Pac-10 coaching rumors
On March 28, 2008 Dixon turned down an offer to return to the West Coast, move to the Pac-10 and become California's men's basketball coach. He was rumored in 2006 to be in contention for the coaching job at fellow Pac-10 school Arizona State before signing the contract extension at Pitt. Dixon's name has also surfaced among fans of Pac-10 stalwart Arizona as a possible head coaching prospect, in light of the October 2008 retirement of their longtime coach Lute Olson.
[edit] Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| 2003–2004 | Pittsburgh | 31-5 | 13-3 | 1st | NCAA Sweet 16 | ||||
| 2004–2005 | Pittsburgh | 20-9 | 10-6 | 5th | NCAA 1st Round | ||||
| 2005–2006 | Pittsburgh | 25-8 | 10-6 | T-4th | NCAA 2nd Round | ||||
| 2006–2007 | Pittsburgh | 29-8 | 12-4 | T-2nd | NCAA Sweet 16 | ||||
| 2007–2008 | Pittsburgh | 27-10 | 10-8 | 7th | NCAA 2nd Round | ||||
| 2008-2009 | Pittsburgh | 11-0 | 0-0 | T-1st | |||||
| Pittsburgh: | 143-40 | 55-27 | |||||||
| Total: | 143-40 | ||||||||
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National Champion Conference Champion Conference Tournament Champion |
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[edit] See also
- Maggie Dixon (1977-2006), Jamie Dixon's younger sister previously coach of the Army Black Knights women's basketball program
[edit] References
- Sciullo, Sam, Jr. (2005). Pitt: 100 Years of Pitt Basketball. Champaign: Sports Publishing. ISBN 1-59670-081-5.
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