Joey Biggs is Assistant Athletic Director for basketball, now in his fourth year with the Fighting Illini program after joining the staff in April 2017.

Biggs came to Illinois after spending 15 years at Oklahoma State. He served 11 years as assistant athletic director for basketball, overseeing travel, budget, scheduling, special events, alumni relations and operational functions. 

"Joey is a tremendous administrator and someone who excels in the many different hats you have to wear in that role," Underwood said. "He was a great asset to every head coach he worked for at Oklahoma State. He is heavily involved in all the organizational duties of running our day-to-day program here at Illinois and has taken the lead on game scheduling as well."

Prior to working with the Cowboys men's basketball program, Biggs oversaw all marketing efforts of the Oklahoma State athletic department from 2002-06. He was responsible for season ticket campaigns, ticket office operations, merchandising, internet operation, contracts/vendor relationships, and all game-day staging.

During his tenure, OSU set an all-time record for football season ticket sales in 2004, as well as records for total ticket revenues, merchandise revenues, multimedia rights revenues and soft-drink revenues.

Before his arrival at Oklahoma State, Biggs spent two years as associate director of athletics/external affairs at Emporia State University. He was in charge of all fundraising, development, marketing, corporate sales, ticketing campaigns and media relations activities. Biggs also oversaw successful funding efforts to begin a women's soccer program. During his era, Emporia State athletics established all-time marks for annual monies raised and total revenues generated.

He also served as director of development for the Tulsa Sports Commission from May 1999 to September 2000.

He served as an assistant basketball coach and assistant athletic director at his alma mater, Ottawa University, from 1996-99. Biggs participated in basketball and golf while attending Ottawa, earning a bachelor's degree in history in 1997. He then received a master's degree in sports administration from Kansas in 1998.

Joey and his wife, the former Michelle Arndt, have two daughters, Jenika and Jackelynn.