Dale Gibson

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Dale Gibson
Current position
TitleFormer Head coach
Team Liberty
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1972–1978 Liberty (asst.)
1978–1981 Liberty
Head coaching record
Overall48-46 (.511)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1980 NCCAA National Championship

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 in 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]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverall
Liberty Flames (NCCAA)(1978–1981)
1978–1979Liberty 15-16
1979–1980Liberty 28-11NCCAA National Champions
1980–1981Liberty 5-19
Liberty:48-46
Total:48-46

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

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