RIP Maggie Dixon

Sad news out of West Point today, with the story breaking that Army head women's basketball coach Maggie Dixon is dead at age 28 after suffering an arrhythmia heart episode on Wednesday. This comes just a few weeks after she led the Army Women's team to their first ever NCAA Tournament berth by beating Holy Cross in the Patriot League Championship, at which point she was lifted up by the Cadets. Maggie is the sister of Pittsburgh's men's basketball coach Jamie Dixon, who led the Panthers to the NCAA Tournament before a 2nd round loss to Bradley. They are believed to be the first sister/brother tandem to coach in the NCAA Tournament at the same time.

Adrian Wojnarowski and Andy Katz have written about it better than I ever could, but I still wanted to extend my sympathies for such a terrible event, especially after the highs that the Dixon's had to have been feeling earlier this month.

She died late Thursday night at age 28 in New York with her family at her side.