Dale Gibson

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Dale Gibson

Title Former Head coach
College Liberty
Sport Basketball
Place of birth Flag of the United States
Career highlights
Overall 48-46 (.511)
Championships
1980 NCCAA National Championship
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1972–1978
1978–1981
Liberty (asst.)
Liberty

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
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

      National Champion         Conference Champion         Conference Tournament Champion


Preceded by
Harley "Skeeter" Swift
Liberty Flames Head Mens Basketball Coach
1978—1981
Succeeded by
Jeff Meyer

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2007-2008 Liberty University Men's Basketball Media Guide pp. 108-109

[edit] External links