Randy Dunton

College coach infobox


Name = Randy Dunton
Sport = Basketball
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College = Liberty University
Title = Former Head coach
Awards = 1985 Alaska HS Coach of Year
1989 Alaska HS Coach of Year
Championships = 1985 Alaska AAA State Championship
1986 Alaska AAA State Championship
2004 Big South Regular Season Co-Championship
2004 Big South Tournament Championship
CurrentRecord = 77-102 (.426)
OverallRecord = 111-128
Player = y
Years = 1980-1984
Team = Baptist Bible College
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Coach = *
CoachYears = 1984-1988
1988-1989
1989–1997
1997–1998
1998–2000
2000–2002
2002–2007
CoachTeams = Anchorage Christian HS
West Anchorage HS
Liberty (asst.)
Liberty
Marshalltown CC
Binghamton (asst.)
Liberty
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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. [cite web|url=http://libertyflames.com/media/1912/men_s_basketball/200607mediaguide/Coaches%20Section.pdf|title=2006-2007 Liberty Basketball Media Guide - Coaching Section, pp. 34-35|accessdate=2008-03-08] 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. [cite web|url=http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm?PID=10869&newsID=1113&TeamID=|title=LU News Release on Dunton Dismissal|accessdate=2008-01-22]

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

Head coaching record

CBB Yearly Record Start
conference=*
postseason=*CBB Yearly Record Subhead
name=Liberty Flames
startyear=1997
conference=Big South Conference
endyear=1998|CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1997–1998
name = Liberty
overall = 11-17
conference = 5-7
confstanding = 4th
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Subhead
name=Marshalltown Tigers
startyear=1998
conference=NJCAA Division I
endyear=2000|CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1998–1999
name = Marshalltown
overall = 13-17
conference =
confstanding =
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1999–2000
name = Marshalltown
overall = 21-9
conference =
confstanding =
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = Marshalltown
overall = 34-26
confrecord = CBB Yearly Record Subhead
name=Liberty Flames
startyear=2002
conference=Big South Conference
endyear=2007|CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 2002–2003
name = Liberty
overall = 14-15
conference = 8-6
confstanding = 2nd
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship = conference
season = 2003–2004
name = Liberty
overall = 18-15
conference = 12-4
confstanding = T-1st
postseason = NCAA Tourney 1st RdCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 2004–2005
name = Liberty
overall = 13-15
conference = 11-5
confstanding = 2nd
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 2005–2006
name = Liberty
overall = 7-23
conference = 3-13
confstanding = 8th
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 2006–2007
name = Liberty
overall = 14-17
conference = 8-6
confstanding = 3rd
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = Liberty
overall = 77-102
confrecord = CBB Yearly Record End
overall= 111-128

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