Regulation size autographed Basketball signed by current San Diego State Men's Basketball Coach Steve Fisher.

Steve Fisher (born March 24, 1945 in Herrin, Illinois, U.S.) is a basketball coach currently at San Diego State University.

Fisher attended Illinois State University, where he helped lead the Redbirds to the 1969 Division II Final Four. After school, he became a high school coach in Park Forest, Illinois. In 1979, he accepted an assistant coaching position at Western Michigan University. In 1982, he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan and took another assistant job at the University of Michigan.

In 1989, during the final week of the regular season, Michigan head coach Bill Frieder agreed to take the coaching job at Arizona State University. Though Frieder intended to coach Michigan through the end of the 1989 NCAA tournament, athletic director Bo Schembechler ordered Frieder to leave immediately and hired Fisher as interim coach, declaring that "a Michigan man will coach Michigan, not an Arizona State man." Once Frieder had announced his employment at another school, Schembechler no longer considered him a "Michigan man."

Initially, Fisher was not expected to retain the position after the season. However, Fisher led the Wolverines to an improbable NCAA championship that season, thanks to a strong performance by forward Glen Rice. Schembechler hired him as the school's permanent head coach a week after the championship game. Michigan credits the 1988-89 regular season to Frieder and the NCAA tournament to Fisher.

In 1991, Fisher signed one of the most talented incoming freshman classes of all time. High school stars Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Ray Jackson, Jimmy King, and Juwan Howard all signed with Fisher and Michigan, forming what became known as the "Fab Five". Together, they helped lead the Wolverines to the national title game in their freshman year, only to lose to Duke. As sophomores, they again reached the title game, this time losing to North Carolina. In that game, Webber was called for a technical foul with 11 seconds remaining in the game when he signaled for a timeout, yet the Wolverines were out of timeouts.

After the title-game loss to the Tar Heels, Webber went pro; Rose and Howard followed a year later. The Wolverines never reached the same heights again. While they reached the postseason each of the next five seasons and won the 1997 National Invitation Tournament, they never advanced further than the Final Eight in the 1994 NCAA Tournament.

In October 1997, Michigan fired Fisher as a result of an off-court scandal (see section below).

Fisher was out of coaching for the 1997-98 season before taking a job as an assistant with the Sacramento Kings.

In 1999, Fisher took over as coach of a San Diego State program that had suffered losing records in 13 of the previous 14 years. In the season before he arrived, the Aztecs had won just four games, but within two seasons Fisher had brought the team up to a .500 record, and led them to a 21-12 record and an NCAA Tournament appearance in year three of his regime.