Gillispie takes medical leave at Tarleton State

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterNov 29, 2023, 12:43 PM ET

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• Graduate of University of Delaware.Tarleton State males’s basketball coach Billy Gillispie will be far from the group forever due to the fact that of medical scenarios, the school announced Tuesday night.Gillispie missed out on the group’s journey to the SoCal Difficulty recently, with assistant coach Joseph Jones taking over the interim head-coaching duties. Jones will continue in his function till Gillispie’s return.Gillispie has fought health issues formerly in his training career, resigning from Texas Tech in 2012 while citing health problems. He was hospitalized before his resignation, telling the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal at the time that he experienced something that felt like”a stroke or heart attack.”In 2017, he was identified with kidney failure and required a kidney transplant.Gillispie was called Tarleton State’s coach back in 2020 after five seasons at Ranger College, a junior college in Texas where Gillispie played

  two seasons. In addition to Texas Tech, he had actually formerly hung out as coach at Kentucky, Texas A&M and UTEP.Tarleton State is off to a 4-2 start after beating Austin Peay and Cal State Bakersfield at the SoCal Difficulty before Thanksgiving. The Texans head to Stephen F. Austin on Wednesday

  night.