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Article: Gillispie Set to Restore Wildcats' Pride
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- AP Online
- Article date:
- April 7, 2007
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - Billy Gillispie doesn't mind being second-guessed. Yet it's hard to nitpick the way he resurrected the programs at UTEP and Texas A&M.
Leading the Miners and the Aggies to the NCAA tournament is one thing. At Kentucky, he knows that won't be enough. His goal is to lead the Wildcats back to the Final Four for the first time in a decade.
"This is why you want to come to the best place in college basketball," he said. "The tougher it is, the better I like it."
It's a toughness he developed as a self-described "bad" basketball player growing up in tiny Graford, Texas, a town too small to field a football team.
It didn't take Gillispie long to realize his success ...