Jamie Dixon

College coach infobox


Name = Jamie Dixon
Sport = Basketball
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DateOfBirth = birth date and age|1965|11|10
Birthplace = flagicon|United States Burbank, California
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College = Pittsburgh
Title = Head coach
Awards = Big East Coach of the Year (2004)
Championships = Big East Regular Season Championship (2004)
Big East Tournament Championship (2008)
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Years = 1984–1987
Team = TCU
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CoachYears = 1989–1991
1991–1992
1992–1994
1994–1998
1998–1999
1999–2003
2003–present
CoachTeams = 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 record of 105-30. 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.

On March 28, 2008 Dixon turned down an offer to become California's men's basketball coach.

Head coaching record

CBB Yearly Record Start
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poll=noCBB Yearly Record Subhead
name=Pittsburgh
startyear=2003
conference=Big East Conference
endyear=|CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship = conference
season = 2003–2004
name = Pittsburgh
overall = 31-5
conference = 13-3
confstanding = 1st
postseason = NCAA Sweet 16CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 2004–2005
name = Pittsburgh
overall = 20-9
conference = 10-6
confstanding = 5th
postseason = NCAA 1st RoundCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 2005–2006
name = Pittsburgh
overall = 25-8
conference = 10-6
confstanding = T-4th
postseason = NCAA 2nd RoundCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 2006–2007
name = Pittsburgh
overall = 29-8
conference = 12-4
confstanding = T-2nd
postseason = NCAA Sweet 16CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship = conference tournament
season = 2007–2008
name = Pittsburgh
overall = 27-10
conference = 10-8
confstanding = 7th
postseason = NCAA 2nd Round

CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = Pittsburgh
overall = 132-40
confrecord = 55-27CBB Yearly Record End
overall=132-40

ee also

*Maggie Dixon (1977-2006), Jamie Dixon's younger sister previously coach of the Army Black Knights women's basketball program

References

*cite book | author=Sciullo, Sam, Jr. | title=Pitt: 100 Years of Pitt Basketball | location=Champaign | publisher=Sports Publishing | year=2005 | id=ISBN 1-59670-081-5