Sources: Tarleton State to extend Gillispie 2 years

• Pete Thamel, ESPNMar 5, 2024, 11:17 PM ET Billy Gillispie is settling a two-year offer to remain the guys’s basketball coach at Tarleton State, sources told ESPN.The deal still

  needs board approval.Gillispie, who has been the coach at Tarleton State given that 2020-21, has not coached considering that Nov. 14 due to what the school described as”medical circumstances. “He has been medically cleared to

  return given that Feb. 1, but has actually selected to remain off the sidelines during games out of regard for acting coach Joseph Jones. Gillispie, 64, has been involved with the program behind the scenes in an advisory role, which he’ll remain in for the remainder of the season.Editor’s Picks 1 Related Jones, who bet Gillispie at Texas A&M and has belonged to his personnel since 2020

, has directed Tarleton State to a 22-7 general record and 15-3 mark in conference play. The Texans are on a 10-game winning streak that includes an upset of Grand Canyon, and task as the No. 2 seed in the WAC tournament.This is Tarleton State’s final season of transitioning to Division I and the school is not qualified for the NCAA tournament.The success of the team Gillispie created and his tidy bill of health from physicians resulted in the two-year extension. Jones, who assisted develop the program with Gillispie, would be the preferred to prosper him whenever he does finish at Tarleton.Gillispie previously coached at UTEP, Texas A&M, Kentucky and Texas Tech, and has coached in four NCAA tournaments at 3 various schools. He has dealt with health problems at various phases of his career and required a kidney transplant after being diagnosed with kidney failure in 2017. Next season will be Gillispie’s fifth at Tarleton State, his longest stretch as a head coach at any of his Department I head-coaching jobs.