Louisville has agreed with Charleston‘s Pat Kelsey on a five-year deal to become the Cardinals’ new basketball coach, sources told ESPN on Wednesday.
Kelsey, 48, is coming off his second consecutive NCAA tournament appearance, leading Charleston to back-to-back CAA regular-season and tournament championships. He brings a career 261-122 record over 12 seasons as a head coach at Charleston and Winthrop.
Louisville has scheduled a news conference for Thursday.
The Cougars went 31-4 during the 2022-23 season, winning 21 of their first 22 games. They took eventual national runner-up San Diego State to the wire in the first round of the NCAA tournament before falling.
This all played out amid a backdrop of uncertainty in the ACC, as last week Clemson became the second school in recent months to file suit against the conference in an attempt to leave.