Dale Gibson
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Former Head coach |
| Team | Liberty |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1972–1978 | Liberty (asst.) |
| 1978–1981 | Liberty |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 48-46 (.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[]
| Season | Team | Overall
| |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Postseason invitational champion
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References[]
- ^ 2007-2008 Liberty University Men's Basketball Media Guide pp. 108-109
- American men's basketball coaches
- Liberty Flames basketball coaches
- Living people
- Tusculum University faculty