Head men’s basketball coach Gordon Gibbons, Clayton State’s leader in victories and one of the all-time winningest coaches at the NCAA Division II level, announced on Wednesday that he will resign his position as the Laker head coach at season’s end.

In his 12th season at Clayton State, Gibbons has a 214-130 record, giving him more wins and a higher winning percentage than any coach in the program’s history. In addition to his stellar accomplishments at Clayton State, he also amassed over 246 wins at Florida Southern, making him the only coach in NCAA Division II history to capture 200 victories at two different schools with a winning percentage of over 70 percent.

Overall, in 22 seasons at the NCAA Division II level, he is 460-193 for a winning percentage of .704, which ranks fourth in the nation among the active head coaches with 15 years of experience.

Gibbons won his 400th game in February of the 2008-09 season, becoming one of the fastest Division II coaches to reach the plateau. At the conclusion of 2006-07 season, Gibbons was honored as the John "Whack" Hyder State of Georgia Men’s College Coach of the Year by the Atlanta Tip-Off Club, and last fall he was inducted into the Florida Association of Basketball Coaches (FABC) "Court of Legends" Hall of Fame.

Clayton State will conduct a nationwide search for Gibbons’ replacement.