You know, I know Andy Katz is a big fan and supporter of Jamie Dixon, but I think he doesn’t really gets this one (Insider Subs.).

Jamie Dixon continues to amaze me.

He has gone through so much in the past year, it’s hard to even fathom. Yet every day can bring a new way in which Dixon can show his strength.

First, it was the way he guided his family through losing his beloved sister and friend, Maggie, to a heart ailment, less than a week after the Final Four and a few short weeks after she guided Army to its first ever women’s basketball NCAA Tournament berth.

He proved to be a tireless worker in getting the Maggie Dixon Classic off the ground, where Dixon’s team and Army’s women’s team opened their seasons, and he continues to work on a number of ways to keep her memory alive.

It should come as no surprise, then, that Dixon spent Thursday night in the hospital room of Duquesne coach Ron Everhart, who was battling a nasty case of diverticulitis, a painful condition of bulging pouches in the digestive tract.

So we’re talking an infection in the digestive tract that usually hits guys over the age of 60 — Everhart’s not quite 45. So Dixon comes and spends over 2 hours in his hospital room at the same time the Dukes are playing (and upset) Boston College.

I mean, talk about the big distraction. You’re on the phone with your staff, trying to coach by phone while watching on a computer and you have to entertain a guest? All the while, dealing with something that includes diarrhea, frequent pissing, pain while pissing and rectal bleeding.

Well, clearly Coach Dixon is trying to make Everhart’s first year in Pittsburgh as painful as possible.