Jim Jabir, Dayton Women’s Basketball’s Winningest Coach, Dies at 63

Overview

• The University of Dayton announced his death from pancreatic cancer at age 63, noting he had been in hospice care since February.
• Doctors found a baseball-sized pancreatic tumor in 2024, surgery removed it in 2025, and the cancer returned in his stomach lining last September.
• He won 551 Division I games, ranked 19th in games coached, and earned two Atlantic 10 coach of the year awards.
• At Dayton from 2003 to 2016 he built a mid-major power with eight straight 20-win seasons and a 2015 Elite Eight after wins over Iowa State, Kentucky, and Louisville.
• He is survived by his wife Angie, their 6-year-old son Jude, and three older children from a prior marriage.