Randy Dunton

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Randy Dunton
Title	Former Head coach
College	Liberty University
Sport	Basketball
Team record	77-102 (.426)
Career highlights
Overall	111-128
Championships
1985 Alaska AAA State Championship 1986 Alaska AAA State Championship 2004 Big South Regular Season Co-Championship 2004 Big South Tournament Championship
Awards
1985 Alaska HS Coach of Year 1989 Alaska HS Coach of Year
Playing career
1980-1984	Baptist Bible College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1984-1988 1988-1989 1989–1997 1997–1998 1998–2000 2000–2002 2002–2007	Anchorage Christian HS West Anchorage HS Liberty (asst.) Liberty Marshalltown CC Binghamton (asst.) Liberty

Randy Dunton is a former head men's basketball coach at Liberty University. He had been the assistant under Head Coach Jeff Meyer, who was subsequently let go in 1997. Dunton was named the interim head coach for 1997-1998, a season that saw the Liberty Flames defeat in-state rival Virginia.^[1] However, he was not offered a contract at the end of the season, and Mel Hankinson became the head coach.

Dunton later went on to coach at Binghamton University. He was finally offered the head coaching position of Liberty University after the school suffered through four disappointing seasons under Hankinson. Dunton brought in some junior college players and helped lead the team to a second-place finish in his first year back, and then he won the Big South Conference championship and an NCAA birth in 2004.

However, his team slipped in subsequent years and never rekindled the magic of '04, and his contract was not renewed at the end of the 2007 season.^[2]

Dunton now coaches a U17 girls basketball team in Brookville, VA, a team which features his daughter.

[edit] Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Liberty Flames (Big South Conference) (1997 — 1998)
1997–1998	Liberty	11-17	5-7	4th
Marshalltown Tigers (NJCAA Division I) (1998 — 2000)
1998–1999	Marshalltown	13-17
1999–2000	Marshalltown	21-9
Marshalltown:		34-26
Liberty Flames (Big South Conference) (2002 — 2007)
2002–2003	Liberty	14-15	8-6	2nd
2003–2004	Liberty	18-15	12-4	T-1st	NCAA Tourney 1st Rd
2004–2005	Liberty	13-15	11-5	2nd
2005–2006	Liberty	7-23	3-13	8th
2006–2007	Liberty	14-17	8-6	3rd
Liberty:		77-102
Total:		111-128
National Champion Conference Champion Conference Tournament Champion