The Louisville Cardinals announced the hiring of Charleston’s Pat Kelsey as their new men’s basketball head coach on Thursday. The move comes just over two weeks after the the program fired head coach Kenny Payne after the two worst seasons in modern program history. They went 8-24 overall and 3-17 in the ACC this season, finishing dead last in conference standings.
Louisville now bring sin Kelsey with the hopes that he will be able to revitalize their once-powerful program. The Cardinals have not reached the NCAA Tournament since 2019, while Kelsey’s Cougars teams have gone dancing in each of the past two years. Kelsey is a Midwesterner by birth, hailing from Cincinnati, and spent time at Xavier and Wake Forest as an assistant before spending nearly a decade as the head coach at Winthrop and three years in Charleston. His name has been floating around in multiple high-profile coaching searches over the past two years.