Sport(s) Basketball Record 27–35 (.435) Conference Ohio Valley Conference | Title Head coach Alma mater University of Kentucky | |
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2002–2004 Louisville (Staff assistant) 2004–2005 Manhattan (Director of Ops.) 2005–2007 Louisville (Director of video ops.) Team coached Eastern Kentucky Colonels men's basketball Team Eastern Kentucky Colonels men's basketball Similar Jaylen Babb‑Harrison, Corey Walden, Eric Stutz, Mike DiNunno, Glenn Cosey | ||
Dan McHale (born 1979) is an American college basketball head coach for the Eastern Kentucky Colonels.
McHale, a native of Chatham, New Jersey, graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2001 and was a student basketball manager there. 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.
In April 2015, he was hired as head coach at Eastern Kentucky, replacing Jeff Neubauer. He uses the full-court press and matchup zone defense he learned while an assistant for Rick Pitino.
