Houston Fancher

Houston Fancher

Current position
Title	Director of Operations and Player Development
Team	NC State
Conference	ACC
Biographical details
Born	(1966-02-17) February 17, 1966 Newport, Tennessee, U.S.
Playing career
1985–1988	Middle Tennessee
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1988–1992	Maryville (assistant)
1992–1995	North Greenville
1995–1996	Vanderbilt (asst.)
1996–2000	Appalachian State (asst.)
2000–2009	Appalachian State
2009–2013	Tennessee (asst.)
2013–2014	UNC Wilmington (asst.)
2015–2017	Charlotte (asst.)
2017–2018	Charlotte (Interim HC)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2018–present	NC State (women's) (dir. of op. & pl. de.)
Head coaching record
Overall	184–177 (.510)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
3× SoCon regular season champion (2003, 2007, 2008)
Awards
SoCon Coach of the Year (2003)

Houston Fancher (born February 17, 1966) is an American basketball coach, previously the interim head coach of the Charlotte 49ers men's basketball team. Prior to that, he worked for a summer in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Later, he also worked for four years at the University of Tennessee, including as the Director of Basketball Operations for the last two of those years. From 2000 to 2009, he was the men's head basketball coach of the Mountaineers at Appalachian State University. His first two seasons saw his team go 11–20, and 10–18, respectively. The following season, 2002–03, his team went 19–10, and Fancher was named the Southern Conference Coach of the Year. In the 2006–07 season, his squad won a school record 25 games, but failed to make the NCAA tournament, instead garnering Appalachian's first National Invitation Tournament (NIT) berth instead. On March 16, 2009, Fancher resigned as head coach following a disappointing 2008–09 season.

On April 2, 2015, Fancher was named assistant coach on the staff of new Charlotte 49ers head coach Mark Price. He was elevated to interim head coach after Price's sudden firing on December 14, 2017.

On March 6, 2018, following a 3–17 record, Fancher was notified by incoming athletics director Mike Hill that he would not be retained through the 2018–19 season and that a nationwide search for a permanent men's basketball coach would begin immediately.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
North Greenville Crusaders (Division II Independent) (1992–1995)
1992–93	North Greenville	14–14
1993–94	North Greenville	15–13
1994–95	North Greenville	15–14
North Greenville:		44–41 (.518)
Appalachian State Mountaineers (Southern Conference) (2000–2009)
2000–01	Appalachian State	11–20	7–9	T–3rd (North)
2001–02	Appalachian State	10–18	5–11	T–3rd (North)
2002–03	Appalachian State	19–10	11–5	T–1st (North)
2003–04	Appalachian State	9–21	4–12	6th (North)
2004–05	Appalachian State	18–12	9–7	T–2nd (North)
2005–06	Appalachian State	14–16	6–8	4th (North)
2006–07	Appalachian State	25–8	15–3	1st (North)	NIT First Round
2007–08	Appalachian State	18–13	13–7	T–1st (North)
2008–09	Appalachian State	13–18	9–11	T–2nd (North)
Appalachian State:		137–136 (.502)	79–73 (.520)
Charlotte 49ers (Conference USA) (2017–2018)
2017–18	Charlotte	3–17	2–16	14th
Charlotte:		3–17 (.150)	2–16 (.111)
"ARMADURA Z29 HELMET ARMOR Z29" by OSCAR CREATIVO Total:		184–194 (.487)
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

External links

• Bio on GoASU