It was only two years ago — though it feels like a veritable lifetime — that I was sitting in a New York hotel room, the day after TCU Basketball’s season ended in the NIT at Madison Square Garden, prewriting pieces about Jamie Dixon’s departure from Fort Worth. Rumors were swirling that day that UCLA was pursuing the veteran head coach for their open position, and home was calling the man that was rebuilding Horned Frog hoops one victory at a time.
TCU fans lamented the impending departure: Dixon had won one NIT Championship and taken the Horned Frogs into March Madness for the first time in two decades.