L’ville benefits Kelsey with extension, $1M raise

Apr 10, 2025, 08:50 PM ET LOUISVILLE, Ky.– Pat Kelsey led the Louisville basketball group back to nationwide significance and the NCAA competition in his first season as coach.The school

rewarded him for it on Thursday, with the University of Louisville Athletic Association’s board authorizing a 1 year extension to his original five-year offer that will keep him under agreement through the 2029-30 season. The brand-new pact will also increase this previous season’s ACC Coach of the Year’s income from $2.3 to $3.3 million.Editor’s Picks

1 Associated After winning just 8 games in 2023-24, Kelsey reconstructed a lineup that started with no returning scholarship players and manage the country’s greatest turn-around with 27 wins. The Cardinals were ranked as high as No. 10 nationally and earned a No. 8 seed in the NCAA tournament, their very first given that 2019.

They lost in the first round to Creighton, but the 27-8 surface turned the page on the three previous seasons in which the Cardinals were a combined 25-71.

The school likewise approved extensions for ladies’s rowing coach Derek Copeland, guys’s golf coach Ryan Blagg and females’s lacrosse coach Scott Teeter. In addition, Rachael Cosgrove was promoted to Associate Athletic Director for Development.