Dan McHale

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Dan McHale
Current position
Team New Mexico
Conference MWC
Biographical details
Born1979 (age 43–44)
Alma mater Kentucky
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2002–2004 Louisville (staff assistant)
2004–2005 Manhattan (director of ops.)
2005–2007Louisville (director of video ops.)
2007–2010 Iona (assistant)
2010–2013 Seton Hall (assistant)
2013–2015 Minnesota (assistant)
2015–2018 Eastern Kentucky
2019–2021 New Mexico (assistant)
2021-present New Mexico (Special Assistant)
Head coaching record
Overall38–55 (.409)

Dan McHale (born 1979) is an American college basketball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Eastern Kentucky University from 2015 to 2018.

McHale, a native of Chatham, New Jersey, graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2001 and was a student basketball manager there. [1] He was a staff assistant at Louisville from 2002 to 2004. McHale spent a season at Manhattan as the director of operations before returning to Louisville as the director of video operations. In 2007, he was hired as an assistant at Iona under Kevin Willard. McHale recruited Scott Machado to Iona and helped the team to 21 wins in his third season. He followed Willard to Seton Hall in 2010. He was hired at Minnesota in 2013 and spent two seasons as an assistant there, earning an NIT title in his first. [2]

In April 2015, he was hired as head coach at Eastern Kentucky, replacing Jeff Neubauer. He used the full-court press and matchup zone defense he learned while an assistant for Rick Pitino. [1]

On February 26, 2018 McHale was dismissed by EKU after three seasons. [3]

On June 20, 2019 McHale was hired by the University of New Mexico as an assistant coach under Paul Weir.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Eastern Kentucky Colonels (Ohio Valley Conference)(2015–2018)
2015–16 Eastern Kentucky 15–166–105th (East)
2016–17 Eastern Kentucky 12–195–116th (East)
2017–18 Eastern Kentucky 11–205–13T–9th
Eastern Kentucky:38–55 (.409)16–34 (.320)
Total:38–55 (.409)

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References

  1. 1 2 Story, Mark (April 18, 2015). "EKU hiring Dan McHale another milestone for the most unlikely 'coaching tree' in basketball — Bill Keightley's". Lexington Herald Leader . Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Dan McHale Introduced As New Coach". Eastern Kentucky University . Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Eastern Kentucky fires basketball coach Dan McHale after 3 seasons". ESPN. February 26, 2018. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
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