Jamie Dixon

Biography

Jamie Dixon is the 22nd head coach in the history of TCU men’s basketball and is in his 10th season with the Horned Frogs and his 23rd season as a head coach. Dixon, a 2007 TCU Athletics Hall of Fame and 2025 Southwest Conference Hall of Fame inductee, returned to his alma mater on March 22, 2016, after serving 13 seasons as head coach at the University of Pittsburgh. His .669 overall winning percentage entering the 2025-26 season ranks 13th among active head coaches with at least 20 years of experience at the NCAA DI level. With a career record of 504-259, his win total ranks 21st among active coaches. His TCU record of 176-126 is the second-most wins of any TCU head coach and the most victories in any nine-year period in program history. Dixon, who has earned four college basketball National Coach of the Year honors, including the 2009 Naismith Coach of the Year, previously served as an assistant at Pitt, Northern Arizona, Hawaii and UC Santa Barbara. Dixon is a two-time gold medalist with the USA U-19 team having won as head coach in 2009 and 2021. He was also instrumental in bringing the USA’s U19 team to train in Fort Worth in 2021. Dixon has been an NABC member for 31 years and served as NABC President from 2020-22. A proven winner, Dixon has a reputation for turning around programs with little success before he arrived. Prior to his arrival at TCU in 2016, the Horned Frogs went 2-16 in Big 12 play and went 0-18 the previous season. The 12-win improvement from 2015-16 t