After a couple of years of slipping slowly into irrelevance, Pat Kelsey has brought Louisville basketball out of the doldrums and back into the national spotlight. The Cardinals made it all the way to the ACC title game last season before getting bounced by Creighton in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, and now they are looking to take another leap in 2025-26.

Kelsey and company got off to a 2-0 start with a couple of blowout wins over inferior teams, but they passed their first test on Tuesday night. No. 12 Louisville toppled No. 9 Kentucky 96-88 in a high-scoring game at the KFC Yum! Center in a renewal of one of college basketball's best rivalries.

This was an emotional win for Louisville, which clearly made a statement that it can be one of the best teams in the country with

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