Dan McHale (born 1979) is an American

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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

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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

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as the director of operations before returning to Louisville as the director of video operations. In 2007, he was hired as an assistant at

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under

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. McHale recruited

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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

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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

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. He used the full-court press and matchup zone defense he learned while an assistant for Rick Pitino. On February 26, 2018 McHale was dismissed by EKU after three seasons. On June 20, 2019 McHale was hired by the

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as an assistant coach under

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Head coaching record

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