Billy Gillispie will make his return to SEC Basketball tonight when his Tarleton State Texans men’s basketball team travels to Texas A&M.
A homecoming for Gillispie, the 61-year-old will be back in College Station where he coached the Aggies from 2004-07, before the University of Kentucky hired him away to coach the Wildcats. We now know it was not the right move for either party, but Gillispie has since landed back on his coaching feet at Tarleton, a program brand new to NCAA Division 1.
Tarleton competes in the Western Athletic Conference, and won its first ever game as a Division 1 school with a 103-48 win over Dallas Christian College, an NCCAA school, the day before Thanksgiving.