Dale Gibson
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| Dale Gibson | ||
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| Title | Former Head coach | |
| College | Liberty | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| Place of birth |  |
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| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 48-46 (.511) | |
| Championships | ||
| 1980 NCCAA National Championship | ||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1972–1978 1978–1981 |
Liberty (asst.) Liberty |
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Dale Gibson is a former men's basketball coach at Liberty University (then called Lynchburg Baptist College). After leaving coaching, he served as a professor at Liberty where he started the school's Sport Management program. Currently he teaches at Tusculum College.
As a coach, he served as the first assistant basketball coach at Liberty University beginning with the program's launch n 1972. Then in 1978, he was named the school's third ever head men's basketball coach. In his second season, he led the Flames to a national championship in the National Christian College Athletic Association.[1]
[edit] Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Liberty Flames (NCCAA) (1978 — 1981) | |||||||||
| 1978–1979 | Liberty | 15-16 | |||||||
| 1979–1980 | Liberty | 28-11 | NCCAA National Champions | ||||||
| 1980–1981 | Liberty | 5-19 | |||||||
| Liberty: | 48-46 | ||||||||
| Total: | 48-46 | ||||||||
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National Champion Conference Champion Conference Tournament Champion |
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| Preceded by Harley "Skeeter" Swift |
Liberty Flames Head Mens Basketball Coach 1978—1981 |
Succeeded by Jeff Meyer |
[edit] References
- ^ 2007-2008 Liberty University Men's Basketball Media Guide pp. 108-109
[edit] External links
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