Briefly
• 2023-24 is his fifth season on the XULA men's basketball staff
• XULA is 87-27 (.763) in Dixon's first four seasons as a coach with four
NAIA national tournament appearances, one Gulf Coast Athletic Conference regular-season championship
and three end-of-season tournament championships: two in the GCAC (2019-20 and 2020-21) and one in the
Red River Athletic Conference (2022-23)
• Received bachelor's and master's degrees from XULA
• Played two seasons (2017-19) of men's basketball for XULA . . . Gold Rush were 42-23 (.646) during that time
• As a coach he helped XULA win a first-round game at NAIA nationals three straight seasons (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23), a program record
• Native of New Orleans and a 2013 graduate of the city's Eleanor McMain High School . . .
School is now known as Eleanor McMain Secondary School
At XULA
• Two GCAC regular-season championships: 2017-18 as a player, 2019-20 as a coach
• Two GCAC Tournament championships, both as a coach: 2019-20 — the Gold Rush's first GCAC Tournament
championship since the 1995-96 season — and 2020-21
• One RRAC Tournament championship as a coach: 2022-23
• Qualified five times for NAIA National Championship tournaments: 2017-18 as a player,
then four seasons as a coach: 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23
• No. 10 in the final NAIA Division I top 25 coaches poll of 2019-20
• 18 victories against top-25 opponents — five as a player and 13 as a coach
• Member of five teams that were top-10 in NAIA or NAIA Division I scoring defense . . .
No. 7 in 2017-18 with 67.8 points allowed per game as a player, then
four times as a coach: No. 10 in 2019-20 with 67.6, No. 2 in 2020-21 with 62.1, No. 3 in 2021-22 with 60.6
and No. 7 in 2022-23 with 64.1
At XULA (Student-Athlete)
• A 6-foot-2 guard who averaged 11.1 points, 3.8 rebounds, 5.1 assists
and one steal and made 60 3-pointers in 52 games with 46 starts in two seasons (2017-19)
• Two-year starter
• Single-game highs included 30 points, five made 3-pointers, 10 rebounds, 11 assists (twice) and four steals
• His 30 points against Dillard in the 2018 GCAC Tournament final made him the first
Gold Rush player in 10 years to reach 30 in a game
• All-GCAC Tournament as a senior (2018-19) and GCAC Player of the Week as a junior (Oct. 23-29, 2017)
• His senior season he entered nationals leading NAIA Division I in total assists (188) and assists per game (5.9) . . .
He finished the season No. 3 in total assists (190) and No. 2 in assists per game (5.8)
Other colleges
• Played two seasons (2014-15 and 2015-16) at Delgado Community College in New Orleans
• Averaged 13.6 points per game his second season at Delgado . . . Statistics not available from 2014-15
• Attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2013-14 but did not play basketball
Club
• Competed four seasons — first with Louisiana Lightning, then with Fleur de Lis
High School
• As a senior at McMain (2012-13), Dixon averaged 18.1 points per game and was second-team all-state in Class 3A
• Scored 38 points in a game his senior year
• Honorable-mention all-state in Class 3A as a junior
