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Villanova Latest Big East Team to Hit Skid

PHILADELPHIA -- Big East coaches try their best not to fret in public over a conference loss, considering how inevitable they are against even the comparatively lowly members. And lately, there's nothing lowly about No. 21 Georgetown, now on a four-game Big East winning streak after the most impressive of the wins, 69-66...

Jamie Dixon, Pitt Basketball Coach, Put TCU's Leap to Big East in Motion

Stories of multi-million dollar deals growing from the seed of one innocent conversation between friends usually sound too good to be true. Jamie Dixon and Chris del Conte, however, swear that this one is the absolute truth: In mid-September, Dixon, the Pittsburgh basketball coach, attended a football game between his...

Jamie Dixon, Pitt Sow Seeds of Final Four in Garden Victory

NEW YORK -- Twenty-five basketball seasons ago, Jamie Dixon beat Texas by dribbling up court and launching a last-second shot from about 35 feet for -- Swish! -- a one-point victory. Dixon then played for TCU. Now, he coaches the Pittsburgh Panthers, who needed a different ending to a similar play Friday night to secure...

Jamie Dixon, Pitt Panthers Hope to Go From Ireland to Promised Land

NEW YORK -- For the Pittsburgh Panthers, the ideal basketball season of 2010-11 would begin with six summer victories in Ireland and end with six spring victories in the NCAA tournament. The final one would come in the championship game in Houston. In between there would be a few rugged tests like the one Thursday...

FanHouse Top 30: No. 4 Pittsburgh

No. 4 Pittsburgh (25-9, 13-5 Big East) In: F Lamar Patterson (R-Fr.), G Isaiah Epps (Fr.), F Talib Zanna (R-Fr.), G Cameron Wright (Fr.), F J.J. Moore (Fr.), F Aron Nwankwo (Fr.) Out: G Jermaine Dixon, G Chase Adams, F Dwight Miller This is the year that Pittsburgh was supposed to be really good, not last year. That was...

Jamie Dixon News From the Web

05/07/12 Pitt's Jamie Dixon Reacts To Big East Shakeup Source: CBS - KDKA 2 - Pittsburgh PA Pitt men's basketball head coach Jamie Dixon checks in with Vinnie & Cook on Sportsradio 93-7 The Fan. He shares his thoughts on John Marinatto's resignation as Big East commissioner, what went wrong for the Big East and where that conference goes from here.
05/04/12 Clemson Football Star Sammy Watkins Arrested by... Source: CBS - NewsChannel 7 - Spartanburg SC Clemson University wide receiver Sammy Watkins was arrested by university police and booked into the City of Clemson's holding facility early Friday morning, according to Clemson City Police Chief Jimmy Dixon.
05/03/12 Man charged with attempted murder at Clemson park Source: Independent-Mail - Anderson SC A Pendleton man was charged Thursday with attempted murder by firing shots after a basketball game Monday.
05/03/12 Pitt Coaches Make Stop In Central PA Source: FOX - WPMT 43 - York PA They're teeing things up in York County for this Pitt Alumni Event.
05/02/12 The Grapes, George Street, Oxford Source: Oxford Times - Oxford - Oxfordshire - UK It's a brave man that takes on one of Oxford's landmark pubs, strips out the 'character-building' decor, removes the Â£2.50-a-pint beer tariff, brings in a new chef and cleans the plate glass window at the front so that people can actually see in and out.

Background on Jamie Dixon

Jamie Dixon (November 10, 1965) is an American basketball head coach. He has served as the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh men's basketball team since 2003. 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.

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