After winning his first-ever postseason game as an NCAA Division I head coach, then-43-year-old Texas native Billy Gillispie took his seat in the interview room at the Western Athletic Conference basketball tournament in Tulsa. It was March 2003, and Gillispie’s UTEP Miners, who’d won five games all season and finished last in the league, had no business pulling off an upset that day—especially since the coach had benched junior point guard Chris Craig for arriving late to the team’s pregame shootaround.But the Miners did win, and Gillispie afterward began to explain his tough love. “This is at a critical time in our season and we are not only working for the moment, we are also working for the future,” he said. Then, suddenly overcome with…The post Another, Quieter Comeback for Billy Gillispie appeared first on Texas Monthly.