David Allen Carter (born March 12, 1967) is an American college basketball coach who is an assistant coach at Loyola Marymount University. From 1999 to 2009, Carter was an assistant at the University of Nevada, Reno, under Trent Johnson from 1999 to 2004 and Mark Fox from 2004 to 2009, including as associate head coach beginning in 2005. On April 3, 2009, Carter became head coach after Fox left to become head coach at Georgia. On June 11, 2018, Carter was hired by San Diego as assistant coach under Sam Scholl.