Dan McHale

Dan McHale
Current position
Sport(s)	Basketball
Title	Head coach
Team	Eastern Kentucky
Conference	OVC
Record	15–16 (.484)
Biographical details
Alma mater	Kentucky
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2002–2004	Louisville (Staff assistant)
2004–2005	Manhattan (Director of Ops.)
2005–2007	Louisville (Director of video ops.)
2007–2010	Iona (asst.)
2010–2013	Seton Hall (asst.)
2013–2015	Minnesota (asst.)
2015–present	Eastern Kentucky

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.^[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 uses the full-court press and matchup zone defense he learned while an assistant for Rick Pitino.^[1]

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Eastern Kentucky (Ohio Valley Conference) (2015–present)
2015–16	Eastern Kentucky	15–16	6–10	5th (East)
2016–17	Eastern Kentucky	0–0	0–0	(East)
Eastern Kentucky:		15–16 (.484)	6–10 (.375)
Total:		15–16 (.484)
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

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.
↑ "Dan McHale Introduced As New Coach". Eastern Kentucky University. Retrieved August 18, 2016.

Eastern Kentucky Colonels basketball head coaches

Clyde H. Wilson (1909–1912)
Charles A. Keith (1912–1913)
Ben Barnard (1913–1917)
No team (1917–1919)
Charles F. Miller & Clyde McCoy (1919–1920)
George Hembree (1920–1929)
Turkey Hughes (1929–1935)
Rome Rankin (1935–1943)
No team (1943–1944)
Rome Rankin (1944–1946)
Paul McBrayer (1946–1962)
Jim Baechtold (1962–1967)
Guy R. Strong (1967–1973)
Bob Mulcahy (1973–1976)
Ed Byhre (1976–1981)
Max Good (1981–1989)
Mike Pollio (1989–1992)
Mike Calhoun (1992–1997)
Scott Perry (1997–2000)
Travis Ford (2000–2005)
Jeff Neubauer (2005–2015)
Dan McHale (2015– )

Current men's basketball head coaches of the Ohio Valley Conference

East: Rick Byrd (Belmont) Dan McHale (Eastern Kentucky) Ray Harper (Jacksonville State) Sean Woods (Morehead State) Dana Ford (Tennessee State) Steve Payne (Tennessee Tech)

West: Dave Loos (Austin Peay) Jay Spoonhour (Eastern Illinois) Matt McMahon (Murray State) Jon Harris (SIU Edwardsville) Rick Ray (Southeast Missouri State) Anthony Stewart (Tennessee–Martin)

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