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The Spokesman-Review: From Long Beach to Japan, TCU's Jamie Dixon and Gonzaga's Mark Few have connections

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From Long Beach to Japan, TCU's Jamie Dixon and Gonzaga's Mark Few have connections​

  • Jim Meehan
    The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. (TNS)
DENVER — When you've been in the coaching business for as long as Gonzaga's Mark Few and TCU's Jamie Dixon, your paths are bound to cross a few times.

In Long Beach, California, for example. And Okinawa, Japan. And Sunday night in the NCAA Tournament round of 32 when the Zags face the Horned Frogs at Ball Arena.

Their first encounter goes back to when Dixon was trying to break into coaching and Few was working for Dan Fitzgerald at Gonzaga.

"He (Few) was one of the first guys I met," said Dixon, who is in his seventh season at TCU after 13 at Pittsburgh. "Him and Ben Howland were good friends. They used to talk about fly fishing. They still talk about it all the time.

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