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Pat Kelsey on Louisville basketball workouts and team ahead of exhibition games in Bahamas
‘It’s how I was raised’ Pat Kelsey on how competition is in his DNA
Louisville basketball coach Pat Kelsey talks about how competition is in the DNA of the Cardinal’s basketball program.
In one month, Pat Kelsey and his inaugural Louisville men’s basketball team will travel to the Bahamas for two exhibition games.
There will be tons to dissect after the head coach and his staff run the team through 10 additional practices, then get an early look at how it fares during a game environment. Maybe they click early, he said; maybe they stink out of the gate — make of it what you will.
He’s hopeful the new-look Cardinals will be in a better place for it heading into Year 1 of his tenure.
“We get a great head start,” Kelsey told reporters at a news conference Thursday. “So, when we get back together when it really, really starts ramping up and it counts for real — when practice starts at the end of September and the beginning of October — we can look back to these 10 practices and go, ‘Man, we’re way further ahead than we should have been.'”
U of L’s Caribbean excursion runs July 28 through Aug. 2. They’ll play July 30 and Aug. 1 — times and opponents have not yet been determined — at the Baha Mar resort in Nassau.
The 10 practices Kelsey is granted are in addition to summer workouts, which began in early June.
Per NCAA bylaws, players can participate in a total of eight weeks of weight training, skill instruction and development while enrolled in summer school; and programs are limited to eight hours per week, total, in those workouts. Only four hours a week can be spent on skill-related instruction.
How have they been going so far? Kelsey said, “You don’t evaluate in June.”
But … he likes what he sees.
“These guys are going hard as crap ever day,” he said. “That’s one of the things we hang our hat on, competing.”
Louisville’s 2024-25 roster includes 12 players who joined the program through the NCAA transfer portal and one incoming freshman. They are:
This story will be updated.
Reach Louisville men’s basketball reporter Brooks Holton at bholton@gannett.com and follow him on X at @brooksHolton.
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