RENO -- Longtime assistant David Carter was promoted Friday to replace Mark Fox as Nevada's coach.

Carter, 42, has been an assistant at Nevada since then-coach Trent Johnson hired him in 1999. He was elevated to associate head coach in 2004 when Johnson was hired by Stanford and Fox took over.

Nevada has posted six consecutive 20-win seasons and seven straight postseason appearances, four in the NCAA tournament.

The terms of Carter's five-year contract were not immediately released.

Carter also served as an assistant at Eastern Washington and Saint Mary's, his alma mater where he played in the late 1980s and was inducted into the school's athletic hall of fame.