 Dixon in 2014 | |||||||||||||||
| TCU Horned Frogs | |||||||||||||||
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| Position | Head coach | ||||||||||||||
| League | Big 12 Conference | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
| Born | November 10, 1965 Burbank, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 175 lb (79 kg) | ||||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||||
| High school | Notre Dame (Los Angeles, California) | ||||||||||||||
| College | TCU (1984–1987) | ||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 1987: 7th round, 150th overall pick | ||||||||||||||
| Selected by the Washington Bullets | |||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1987–1990 | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Point guard | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1989–present | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
| As player: | |||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | La Crosse Catbirds | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Hawke's Bay Hawks | ||||||||||||||
| As coach: | |||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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| Stats at Basketball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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James Patrick Dixon II[1] (born November 10, 1965) is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the TCU Horned Frogs men's team, where he played college ball. 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.[2] 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,[3] and played professionally with the Continental Basketball Association's Lacrosse Catbirds and for Hawke's Bay Hawks of the New Zealand National Basketball League.[4]
- ^ LaPointe, Joe (March 10, 2004). "COLLEGE BASKETBALL; A Coach of Good Cheer Leads Pitt". New York Times. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
- ^ Fittipaldo, Ray (November 17, 2009). "Pitt's Dixon named USA basketball national coach of the year". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved November 17, 2009.
- ^ "1987 NBA Draft". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
- ^ "A New Zealand Homecoming Of Sorts". June 24, 2009. Archived from the original on January 6, 2010. Retrieved August 18, 2009.