Dan McHale

{{short description|American college basketball coach (born 1979)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}

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| alma_mater = Kentucky

| coach_years1 = 2002–2004

| coach_team1 = Louisville (staff assistant)

| coach_years2 = 2004–2005

| coach_team2 = Manhattan (director of ops.)

| coach_years3 = 2005–2007

| coach_team3 = Louisville (director of video ops.)

| coach_years4 = 2007–2010

| coach_team4 = Iona (assistant)

| coach_years5 = 2010–2013

| coach_team5 = Seton Hall (assistant)

| coach_years6 = 2013–2015

| coach_team6 = Minnesota (assistant)

| coach_years7 = 2015–2018

| coach_team7 = Eastern Kentucky

| coach_years8 = 2019–2021

| coach_team8 = New Mexico (assistant)

| coach_years9 = 2021-2022

| coach_team9 = New Mexico (Special Assistant)

| overall_record = 38–55 ({{winpct|38|55}})

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Dan McHale (born 1979) is a former American college basketball coach who most recently served as the special assistant to the head coach at New Mexico. 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.{{cite news|last1=Story|first1=Mark|title=EKU hiring Dan McHale another milestone for the most unlikely 'coaching tree' in basketball — Bill Keightley's|url=http://www.kentucky.com/sports/college/mens-basketball/article44594949.html|accessdate=August 18, 2016|work=Lexington Herald Leader|date=April 18, 2015}} 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.{{cite web|title=Dan McHale Introduced As New Coach|url=http://ekusports.com/news/2015/4/8/MBBALL_0408155035.aspx|publisher=Eastern Kentucky University|accessdate=August 18, 2016}}

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.

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

{{cite news|title=Eastern Kentucky fires basketball coach Dan McHale after 3 seasons|url=http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/22586135/eastern-kentucky-fires-basketball-coach-dan-mchale-3-seasons|accessdate=February 26, 2018|publisher=ESPN|date=February 26, 2018}}

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