Nevada rewarded David Carter’s 10 years of valuable service as an assistant by hiring him as the Wolf Pack’s next head coach. Carter replaces Mark Fox, who left Reno to take Georgia’s head coaching position. The Wolf Pack’s job will Carter’s first head coaching experience after working as an assistant at Eastern Washington, St. Mary’s and Nevada for the past 14 years. A former guard at St. Mary’s, Carter has proven that he can successfully develop guards at Nevada, according to a school press release.
His extensive knowledge of the Nevada offense has helped the program grow from year-to-year, breaking the single-season record for scoring in 2004-05 and again in 2006-07 with 2,632 points as well as the single-season mark for assists with 571 in 2006-07. Two of his guards — Ramon Sessions (2005) and Armon Johnson (2008) — have been named the WAC Freshman of the Year, while Johnson was a first-team All-WAC selection as a sophomore in 2009. Sessions, a 2007 NBA Draft pick by the Milwaukee Bucks, ended his career at Nevada ranked second in all-time assists after only three seasons.
