| Houston Fancher | |
| Current Title: | Director of Operations and Player Development |
| Current Team: | NC State |
| Current Conference: | ACC |
| Birth Date: | 17 February 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Newport, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 1985–1988 |
| Player Team1: | Middle Tennessee |
| Coach Years1: | 1988–1992 |
| Coach Team1: | Maryville (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 1992–1995 |
| Coach Team2: | North Greenville |
| Coach Years3: | 1995–1996 |
| Coach Team3: | Vanderbilt (asst.) |
| Coach Years4: | 1996–2000 |
| Coach Team4: | Appalachian State (asst.) |
| Coach Years5: | 2000–2009 |
| Coach Team5: | Appalachian State |
| Coach Years6: | 2009–2013 |
| Coach Team6: | Tennessee (asst.) |
| Coach Years7: | 2013–2014 |
| Coach Team7: | UNC Wilmington (asst.) |
| Coach Years8: | 2015–2017 |
| Coach Team8: | Charlotte (asst.) |
| Coach Years9: | 2017–2018 |
| Coach Team9: | Charlotte (Interim HC) |
| Admin Years1: | 2018–present |
| Admin Team1: | NC State (women's) (dir. of op. & pl. de.) |
| Overall Record: | 184–177 |
| 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.[1] 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.[2]
On April 2, 2015, Fancher was named assistant coach on the staff of new Charlotte 49ers head coach Mark Price.[3] He was elevated to interim head coach after Price's sudden firing on December 14, 2017.[4]
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.[5]