College Basketball News

Layer returning to Liberty as new coach (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

Former assistant Dale Layer is returning to Liberty as the new head coach. Layer was introduced Wednesday as the Flames' eighth basketball coach. He succeeds Ritchie McKay, who moved down the road to Charlottesville to join Tony Bennett's staff at the University of Virginia. Layer returns to Liberty after serving there as an assistant during the 2007-08 season.