Sporting News: Jamie Dixon’s new TCU gig will be a test of gumption but bring sense of relief

He turned nothing into something before, although Jamie Dixon had a heck of a lot more help last time.

He will not arrive at TCU with Ben Howland at his side. He is riding into Fort Worth on a lone horse, there to rescue a basketball program that barely has existed for the whole of NCAA basketball.

There have been seven NCAA Tournament appearances by the Horned Frogs in nearly eight decades of the event’s existence. So that’s less than one every 10 years.

Think Pitt was an empty shell when Howland and Dixon arrived in 1999? Compared to this circumstance, the one Dixon has volunteered to enter, the Panthers were UCLA. TCU has been a member of the Big 12 Conference for four seasons. The program averaged two league wins per year. …

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