Sources: Gillispie not coaching Tarleton State next yearJeff BorzelloClose
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Sources: Last year for Gillispie at Tarleton State
Tarleton State is expected to formally announce Friday morning that men’s basketball coach Billy Gillispie will not return next year, sources told ESPN.
The school is expected to run a full national search for a new head coach.
Gillispie has been sidelined since Jan. 15 due to health issues, also missing a game in December. He told The Dallas Morning News earlier this month that it was related to blood pressure and his heart.
He has had health issues throughout his coaching 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 experience something that felt like “a stroke or heart attack.”
In 2017, he was diagnosed with kidney failure and needed a kidney transplant.
Gillispie also missed most of the 2023-24 season after undergoing a medical procedure related to blood pressure issues.
Associate head coach Glynn Cyprien has been the team’s acting head coach since Gillispie took his leave.
Gillispie was named Tarleton State’s head coach in 2020 after five seasons at Ranger College, a junior college in Texas. Gillispie previously spent time as the head coach at Kentucky, Texas Tech, Texas A&M and UTEP.
The Texans, who were 11-6 when Gillispie started his leave, enter the final two games of the regular season at 14-15 (5-11 WAC).
