Former WVU Coach Josh Eilert Lands New Job

Former West Virginia coach Josh Eilert has been hired as an assistant coach at Wichita State, the program announced Tuesday.

Eilert, who spent the 2024-25 season with Utah as an assistant coach and eventual interim head coach, had been with West Virginia’s program for 17 seasons following former WVU head coach Bob Huggins from Kansas State in 2007.

After Huggins’s dismissal, Eilert served as the Mountaineers’ interim head coach for the 2023-24 season. West Virginia went 9-23 in its one season under Eilert.

Eilert became an assistant coach at Utah last offseason, where he spent the 2024-25 season. When Craig Smith was fired as the Utes’ head coach with four games left in the regular season, Eilert was promoted to be an interim head coach for the second year in a row.

Utah went 1-5 under Eilert, including a close, 71-69, home loss to WVU on March 4.

A Kansas native, Eilert now returns to his home state to join the Shockers program as an assistant to head coach Paul Mills.

“I’m excited to welcome Coach Eilert to Wichita,” Mills said in a statement. “He is a Kansas native and has been involved with high level basketball at every step along his basketball journey from Kansas State, West Virginia and Utah. He is a coach that other coaches and administrators have raved about when I spoke with people who have seen Josh’s work firsthand. He comes here as a proven teacher and leader. The more time I was able to visit with Coach Eilert and speak to others about him, it was evident to me and our staff that he was a person we wanted to be a part of what we are building here in Wichita.”

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