2011 Maggie Dixon Classic
Oct. 4, 2011
NEW YORK - MSG Sports and the Dixon family announced
today that top national teams University of Tennessee, Baylor University
and DePaul University, along with local favorite St. John's University,
will play in the annual Maggie Dixon Classic on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011
at Madison Square Garden. The national matchups will mark the sixth
anniversary of the Maggie Dixon Classic and the fifth-consecutive season
The Garden will host one of the premier women's college basketball
events.
Tickets for the Maggie Dixon Classic start at $20 and go on sale Friday, Oct. 7 at noon. They can be purchased at the Madison Square Garden box office, all Ticketmaster locations and online at www.thegarden.com.
The Dixon family and Madison Square Garden will honor Lady Vols' head coach Pat Summitt with the Maggie Dixon Courage Award. Summitt recently announced that she was diagnosed with early onset dementia. Distributed annually, the award is presented to an individual who exhibits courage in the face of adversity and continue to exemplify Maggie's mantra of never allowing adversity to get in the way of achieving a dream.
In their second Maggie Dixon Classic appearance, Tennessee's Lady
Vols, led by the winningest coach in the history of men's or women's
college basketball, Summitt, will face Doug Bruno's DePaul team in game
two. Maggie Dixon began her coaching career as an assistant coach under
Bruno at DePaul.
The tournament's opener features 10th-year head coach Kim Barnes Arico and the St. John's Red Storm as they tip off against the 2011 Big 12 champions Baylor Lady Bears and their head coach Kim Mulkey at 11:00 a.m. The Lady Bears will be making their second appearance in the last three years with 6-8 All-American Brittney Griner. St. John's and Baylor have faced each other twice before. In the last meeting between the two teams, the Lady Bears defeated the Red Storm, 75-65 in Waco, Texas on Dec. 6, 2008.
Three of the four head coaches participating in the 2011 Maggie Dixon Classic are ranked in the top 20 among active coaches in winning percentage and the four coaches have a combined total of 2,046 victories.
The Maggie Dixon Classic is held annually in memory of the former Army Black Knights women's basketball coach. On April 6, 2006, 29 year old Maggie Dixon, died from an undiagnosed heart condition. Over the course of her six months as head coach at the United States Military Academy she led the program to unprecedented heights; the Black Knights played in their first Patriot League Championship and Dixon led her team to their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. Over 325,000 Americans die every year from sudden cardiac arrest and Madison Square Garden will again team with the Dixon family to host a Heart Health Fair during both games.
Tickets for the Maggie Dixon Classic start at $20 and go on sale Friday, Oct. 7 at noon. They can be purchased at the Madison Square Garden box office, all Ticketmaster locations and online at www.thegarden.com.
The Dixon family and Madison Square Garden will honor Lady Vols' head coach Pat Summitt with the Maggie Dixon Courage Award. Summitt recently announced that she was diagnosed with early onset dementia. Distributed annually, the award is presented to an individual who exhibits courage in the face of adversity and continue to exemplify Maggie's mantra of never allowing adversity to get in the way of achieving a dream.
The tournament's opener features 10th-year head coach Kim Barnes Arico and the St. John's Red Storm as they tip off against the 2011 Big 12 champions Baylor Lady Bears and their head coach Kim Mulkey at 11:00 a.m. The Lady Bears will be making their second appearance in the last three years with 6-8 All-American Brittney Griner. St. John's and Baylor have faced each other twice before. In the last meeting between the two teams, the Lady Bears defeated the Red Storm, 75-65 in Waco, Texas on Dec. 6, 2008.
Three of the four head coaches participating in the 2011 Maggie Dixon Classic are ranked in the top 20 among active coaches in winning percentage and the four coaches have a combined total of 2,046 victories.
The Maggie Dixon Classic is held annually in memory of the former Army Black Knights women's basketball coach. On April 6, 2006, 29 year old Maggie Dixon, died from an undiagnosed heart condition. Over the course of her six months as head coach at the United States Military Academy she led the program to unprecedented heights; the Black Knights played in their first Patriot League Championship and Dixon led her team to their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. Over 325,000 Americans die every year from sudden cardiac arrest and Madison Square Garden will again team with the Dixon family to host a Heart Health Fair during both games.
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