Billy Gillispie
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"Billy Clyde Gillispie" ( ), also known by his initials "BCG", is a former American college basketball coach. Gillispie has coached the UTEP Miners men's basketball/UTEP Miners, Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball/Texas A&M Aggies, Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball/Kentucky Wildcats, and most recently, the Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball/Texas Tech Red Raiders.

After leading both UTEP Miners and Texas A&M Aggies to postseason appearances one year after poor seasons, Gillispie became the only college basketball coach to be in charge of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) program with the biggest turnaround in two consecutive seasons. Gillispie was known as an excellent recruiter who has managed to put together four straight top-25 recruiting classes. In his three seasons at Texas A&M, the Aggies achieved three consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time in the program's history.

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I don't know how we do it.

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They're the toughest team ... toughest team I've ever seen. Not close, and I've been around some tough teams. Really tough. Really tough.

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It was a tough loss and a hard fought game. It was a very competitive game. I thought it was very fitting the way the game ended. We had so many close games all season long. We won a bunch of them in that fashion.

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We just keep trying hard. We're not an imposing, physical team, but we do play very well together, and that's what carries us through. Our guys have a lot of confidence in our man-to-man defense.

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You can't really stop a guy like that. You just hope he doesn't totally destroy you.

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We couldn't get the ball to the basket because of athletic ability, couldn't finish enough plays, couldn't get to the foul line quite as much as they did.

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We stood around and watched and weren't really aggressive. Our zone attack was very stinky today, without question.

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As much as this team has been able to do the last two years, we haven't been athletic enough or deep enough. They [recruits] will definitely alter our style of play.

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You can't stop a big guy like that. You just have to hope he doesn't totally destroy you. If you do too much, and send too many guys his way, he is a great passer. He just knows how to put the ball in the basket and make everyone better.

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