Jamie Dixon
Jamie Dixon (born November 10, 1965)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: TCU Horned Frogs
Current conference: Big 12 Conference
Pittsburgh record: 328-123 (.727)
TCU record: 160-110 (.593)
Overall record: 488-233 (.677)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 15 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 3 (2004, 2007, 2009)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 0
- NIT Championships: 1 (2017)
- NIT Appearances: 3 (2015, 2017, 2019)
- CBI Championships: 1 (2012)
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2012)
- Big 12 Regular Season Champion: 0
- Big East Regular Season Champion: 2 (2004, 2011)
- Big 12 Tournament Champion: 0
- Big East Tournament Champion: 1 (2008)
Awards:
- Naismith Coach of the Year: 1 (2009)
- Sporting News Coach of the Year: 1 (2011)
- Jim Phelan Award: 1 (2010)
- Big East Coach of the Year: 1 (2004)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2016-present | TCU |
| 2003-2016 | Pittsburgh |
| 1999-2003 | Pittsburgh (asst) |
| 1998-1999 | Hawaii (asst) |
| 1994-1998 | Northern Arizona (asst) |
| 1992-1994 | Hawaii (asst) |
| 1991-1992 | UC Santa Barbara (asst) |
| 1989-1991 | Los Angeles Valley CC (asst) |
Jamie Dixon Facts
- James Patrick Dixon II
- Born November 10, 1965
- Hometown: North Hollywood, California
- Alma Mater: Texas Christian University (BS, 1987) / UC Santa Barbara (MS, 1992)
- Played at TCU under head coach Jim Killingsworth, then spent a year playing professionally in New Zealand
- Started coaching career while in NZ, spending a season coaching at Te Aute College
- Returned to the States in 1989 where he spent two seasons as an assistant at Los Angeles Valley CC
- Spent the next thirteen years as an assistant at the D-I level, working under head coaches Jerry Pimm, Riley Wallace and Ben Howland
- Took over as Pittsburgh head coach in 2003 after spending four years on Howland‘s staff there
- Won 328 games in thirteen seasons, leading the Panthers to the postseason every year (including 11 NCAA Tournaments)
- When the program left the Big East for the ACC in 2013, Dixon had a .628 record in Big East conference/Tournament games – the best in conference history
- Dixon’s 328 wins are the second-most in program history
- Left Pitt following the 2015-16 season to return to alma mater TCU
- In his first year, led the Horned Frogs to 24 wins and a NIT Championship victory (vs. just 12 wins the year before)
- Reached the NCAA Tournament in 2018, the first for the program in 20 years; returned for three-straight from 2022-24
- Dixon served as President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) from April 2020 to April 2022
Jamie Dixon Coaching Tree
- Orlando Antigua (South Florida)
- David Cox (Rhode Island)
- Scott Cross (Troy)
- Tom Herrion (Marshall)
- Joe Lombardi (Indiana PA)
- David Patrick (Sacramento State, UC Riverside)
- Mike Rice Jr. (Rutgers, Robert Morris)
- Barry Rohrssen (Manhattan)
- Pat Skerry (Towson)