| Wins against Kentucky - 0 | Losses against Kentucky - 3 |
Alma Mater: Penn State [1952]
Hometown: Donora, PA
Date Born: December 18, 1927
Date Died: July 23, 1975
Overall Record: 237-205 [19 Seasons]

Obituary - Lexington (NC) Dispatch (July 24, 1975)

Former Virginia Basketball Coach Dies of Heart Attack

TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) - University of South Florida basketball coach Bill Gibson collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack at his home Wednesday. He was 47.

Gibson suffered a previous heart attack about a year ago shortly after he came to USF from the University of Virginia, where he had been head coach for 11 years.

In his first year at USF his team had a 15-10 record, and Gibson had promised to boost the university to national prominence within five years.

"The death of Bill Gibson is a great loss not only to the university, basketball and the Tampa Bay community, but as a friend to me personally," USF president Cecil Mackey said.

"Bill was a great basketball coach, not only on the floor but in his relations with the players as individuals, athletes and student," Mack said. "He will be exceedingly difficult to replace."

Survivors include the widow, Pat, and a daughter, Jane Lee.

Gibson coached at Mansfield, Pa. State College and Virginia before coming here. In his 20 years of coaching he put together a record of 236 victories.

The Mansfield basketball program had suffered 13 consecutive losing seasons when Gibson took over and in two years he had produced a winner.

When he left there for Virginia, he faced many of the same problems. Virginia had gone through nine straight losing seasons. In six years he turned around that record and in 1971-72 he was named Coach of the Year in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

He also was named Coach of the Year in District Three of the NCAA that year, and finished second in national voting to John Wooden of UCLA.

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