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Louisville basketball guard Reyne Smith discusses his journey from Australia to play in the U.S. and why he's followed coach Pat Kelsey along the way.

Read what the head coach of the Cardinals, Reyne Smith and Terrence Edwards Jr. said after their win over the Demon Deacons:

Pat Kelsey has brought Louisville to heights the program has not seen in a few years. CBB analyst details why future recruits and transfer portal guys should want to play for Kelsey.

After having a week off from their last game at SMU, Louisville will be back in action and hosting Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons are also one of the better teams in the ACC, previously winning six-in-a-row before narrowly falling to Duke this past Saturday.

It’s time to fully buy into Pat Kelsey's Cardinals after their 72-59 win over Wake Forest on Tuesday night pushed their winning streak to 10 games.

In leading his Louisville Cardinals, Pat Kelsey encourages "great basketball talk." Judging by their seven-game win streak, it's working wonderfully.

I was worn out." “God works in mysterious ways,” Pat Kelsey said. “A lot of areas that college basketball has moved to, I'm pretty good at them. And I actually even enjoy them.”

It has been more than a decade since Louisville joined the ACC. With Saturday's win against Virginia, they added another accomplishment.

Clemson basketball coach Brad Brownell couldn't help but draw a comparison between the KFC Yum! Center crowd his Tigers faced during a Jan. 7 loss to Louisville and the one that greeted them ...

There’s nothing artificial about Louisville basketball’s GBT chat, and coach Pat Kelsey encourages it because it makes for intelligent play. “He said he loves GBT, great baseball talk ...

But Tuesday night was not a nostalgia-fueled fever dream. It was a clear-eyed toast to the future under Pat Kelsey, who's now one victory from tying Payne's two-year total. The buzz is intoxicating.