With Maggie Dixon’s wake tonight and the funeral tomorrow, lots of arrangements are being made. Both the DePaul and Army women’s teams are flying to California for the funeral as noted in this story on the Roundball Classic in Chicago.

A sobering thought throughout the weekend was that the game lost someone whose life embodied the joy for the game.

The teams at DePaul and Army, and the game as a whole, suffered an incomprehensible loss when 28-year-old Maggie Dixon died Thursday.

“While we’ve been here, Pam [his wife] and I have gone to bed crying,” [Sonny] Vaccaro said. “We knew her. We knew her dad. And we know her brother [Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon]. It’s so sad. That really hit home. What basketball does is connect us. How do you celebrate when this happens to a 28-year-old kid? The answer is you have to keep living and put on a happy face. If all we do is give pause to her memory, she will never leave us.”

The DePaul and Army women’s basketball teams will fly to California for a wake tonight and the funeral Tuesday. DePaul coach Doug Bruno and athletic director Jean Lenti Ponsetto plan to attend the burial on Friday at West Point.

“It’s hard to imagine Maggie with the generals,” Bruno said.

It’s just hard to imagine, period.

Of course, Barry Rohrssen will be in attendance, even though it could affect his chances for the Manhattan job.

All eyes now turn to Manhattan, the MAAC regular-season champ which lost Bobby Gonzalez to Seton Hall. Rohrssen is a strong candidate but could be out of play until Wednesday, as he is in Los Angeles for the funeral services of Army women’s coach Maggie Dixon, the sister of Pitt head coach Jamie Dixon.

It probably won’t make any real difference in his chances, and it might help if this time a school talks to some other candidates before Rohrssen.