McHale, a native of Chatham, New Jersey, graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2001 and was a student basketball manager there.
McHale recruited Scott Machado to Iona and helped the team to 21 wins in his third season.
[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.
[3] On June 20, 2019 McHale was hired by the University of New Mexico as an assistant coach under Paul Weir.