TYLER CHENG
Athletic Data Statistician for Men’s Basketball
JOSH EILERT
Director of Basketball Operations Josh Eilert enters his 15th season with the West Virginia men’s basketball program. Eilert was named WVU’s director of basketball operations in July 2017 after he spent the first six seasons as the video coordinator and coordinator of basketball operations from 2013-17. For the 2016-17 season, Eilert served as interim assistant coach. During that time, Eilert was responsible for on-court scouting, off-campus recruiting and working with WVU’s wing players. He came to WVU from Kansas State, where he served as a graduate assistant at Kansas State under Bob Huggins in 2006-07. Since coming to West Virginia in 2007, the Mountaineers won the 2010 Big East Championship and have earned 10 NCAA Tournament appearances, including the 2010 Final Four and five NCAA Sweet 16s. While at Kansas State, Eilert assisted the coaching staff with the day-today internal operations of the basketball program, including self-scout and opponent scouting, coordination of on-campus recruiting, film exchange, travel arrangements and special projects. Eilert also served as the assistant camp director of the Bob Huggins basketball camps. Prior to Kansas State, Eilert was a loan officer at Community National Bank in Seneca, Kansas. Eilert played two seasons of basketball at Kansas State from 2002-04 after transferring from Cloud County Community College, where he was a two-year letterman and one-year starter. He was a first team all-Big 12 academic selection as a senior and four times was named to the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll. Eilert was honored with the Keith Amerson Academic Award in 2004. While at Cloud County, he earned KJCAA Academic All-America honors as a sophomore. A native of Osborne, Kansas, Eilert earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from Kansas State in 2004. He earned his master’s degree in College Student Personnel/Intercollegiate Athletics from Kansas State in 2007. Eilert and his wife, Brandi, reside in Morgantown. They have two sons, Brendan and Tristan, and a daughter, Emri.
JAY KUNTZ
Assistant to the Head Coach Jay Kuntz, who has spent 13 years with the Mountaineer basketball program, was named assistant to the head coach in July 2017 after serving as coordinator of player development from 2015-17. Kuntz spent three years as a graduate assistant in men’s basketball and was a four-year student manager from 200812. He also served as an assistant camp director for the Bob Huggins Basketball Camps and coordinated the men’s basketball manager staff of 16 individuals. In his current role at WVU, Kuntz will assist with the coordination of on-campus recruiting activities, organize community outreach activities, assist in film and on-court analysis for player development and serve as the liaison to the academic services unit. A native of Wallingford, Connecticut, Kuntz graduated from WVU in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies and earned a master’s degree from WVU in athletic coaching education in 2014. Kuntz has one son, Jaxton.
Tyler Cheng was named the athletic data statistician for WVU men’s basketball in July 2019 after serving as a program assistant for one season. No stranger to WVU basketball, Cheng enters his eighth season on the WVU basketball staff after serving four years as a graduate assistant, head manager and student manager. A native of London, Ontario, Cheng graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in business management and organizational studies and a specialization in accounting. At WVU, he earned a master’s degree in athletic coaching education in 2016 and a master’s degree in public administration in 2018. In addition to WVU, Cheng’s basketball experience includes serving as an associate coach at Fanshawe College (2013-14), head coach of the Ontario Talent Identification & Development Program U16 boys basketball summer team (2013-14), head coach STA high school boys’ basketball (2012-14), head coach Gold Medal Club boys’ basketball (2008-14) and as a carded basketball referee for the London Board of Basketball Officials (2006-12).
RYAN MCINTYRE Video Coordinator
Ryan McIntyre, who served as a head student manager for WVU men’s basketball in 2015-16, returned to the Mountaineer basketball program in July 2019 as video coordinator. Prior to returning to West Virginia, McIntyre served as director of basketball operations at Austin Peay for two seasons, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the program, coordinating travel schedules, assisting in community service initiatives, overseeing student managers, serving as director of video services and basketball camps. A native of Fairfax, Virginia, McIntyre is a 2016 graduate of West Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in athletic coaching education. In addition to his one season as head student manager for coach Bob Huggins, McIntyre served as a student manager for two seasons and a student administrative assistant for one season. Following graduation, McIntyre was a graduate assistant manager at South Carolina for coach Frank Martin, helping the Gamecocks to the program’s first Final Four in 2016-17. In addition to the Bob Huggins Basketball Camps, McIntyre has worked numerous basketball camps. He served on camp staffs for Frank Martin (South Carolina), Matt Figger (Austin Peay), Mark Turgeon (Maryland), Shaka Smart (VCU), John Thompson III (Georgetown), Josh Pastner (Memphis), Fred Hoiberg (Iowa State) and John Groce (Illinois).
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