Louisville basketball: Pat Kelsey praises team after NCAA Tournament loss
Louisville basketball coach Pat Kelsey praises the Cardinals following an 89-75 loss to Creighton in the first round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament.
Louisville basketball will travel to Arkansas for its second appearance in the ACC/SEC Challenge.The Cardinals fell in lopsided fashion to Ole Miss at the KFC Yum! Center in last year’s event.The SEC won the 2024 showdown, 14-2.
Louisville basketball reportedly drew a juicy matchup in this year’s ACC/SEC Challenge.
According to a report Wednesday from Jon Rothstein for College Hoops Today, it’ll be Pat Kelsey’s Cardinals against John Calipari and Kenny Payne’s Arkansas Razorbacks at Bud Walton Arena.
Rothstein’s report did not include a date and time for the game.
Calipari lost to U of L only three times during his 15 seasons at archrival Kentucky. When he took over the Razorbacks last spring, he hired Payne as his associate head coach. The Cards fired Payne after going 12-52 across his two seasons at the helm.
This will be Louisville’s second appearance in the annual showdown between the ACC and the SEC. In Year 1 of the Kelsey era, it lost to Ole Miss, 86-63, at the KFC Yum! Center.
The Cards’ lopsided defeat was one of 14 the ACC suffered in last year’s event. If the conference is to make a return to form in 2025-26, it needs to fare much better than that.
Here’s a look at the full 2025 ACC/SEC Challenge field, according to Rothstein’s report:
Florida at DukeNorth Carolina at KentuckyVirginia at TexasN.C. State at AuburnClemson at AlabamaLouisville at ArkansasOklahoma at Wake ForestSMU at VanderbiltTexas A&M at PittMississippi State at Georgia TechMiami at Ole MissLSU at Boston CollegeVirginia Tech at South CarolinaTennessee at SyracuseMissouri at Notre DameGeorgia at Florida State
Arkansas finished 22-14…
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Publish date : 2025-06-11 20:45:00
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