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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...

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05/31/12 Butler Hoops Head Coach Brad Stevens Discusses Move To... Source: CBS - KDKA 2 - Pittsburgh PA Butler Basketball Head Coach Brad Stevens joined Seibel, Starkey and Miller on Sportsradio 93.7 The FAN to talk about his team making the move to the Atlantic 10 Conference and what that means for his program.
05/30/12 The Money's All Right Source: Pitt Blather Over the weekend Pitt released info on the highest paid university employees for the past fiscal year (July 2010-June 2011).
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.

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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