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Dale Gibson

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Dale Gibson
Current position
TitleFormer Head coach
TeamLiberty
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1972–1978Liberty (asst.)
1978–1981Liberty
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

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Statistics overview
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

      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

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