Lew Hill turned down a chance to look into the coaching job at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
The school, formerly known as Texas-Pan American, doesn’t make a good first impression with basketball.
It’s never played in the NCAA Tournament as an NCAA Division I school. It plays in a 2,500-seat fieldhouse built in 1969. Since 1999-2000, it recorded two winning seasons while cycling through five coaches. Hill, who played at Wichita State from 1985-88, spent the past 12 seasons as an assistant to Lon Kruger at UNLV and Oklahoma.
He didn’t need a bad situation.