How does 1st Louisville basketball transfer portal haul under Pat Kelsey stack up in ACC?

The ACC has a new look. It’s only fitting Louisville men’s basketball followed suit.

With the additions of California, SMU and Stanford, the 18-team conference will stretch to both coasts when the 2024-25 season tips off. And no one in the league, from Atlantic to Pacific, was busier than the Cardinals in the NCAA transfer portal this spring.

New head coach Pat Kelsey had to start from scratch after every scholarship player from last season’s team headed elsewhere in the wake of Kenny Payne’s ouster. He and his staff needed only 55 days to assemble a collection of talent that they believe will be more than just competitive.

“It’s possible to construct a winning roster in a short amount of time,” Kelsey told CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein last month, during an episode of the “College Hoops Today” podcast. “If something like that happened five, six years ago, much less 10, you’re talking about a monumental rebuild that could take a decade or several years, at least.”

Entering the final week of May, EvanMiya.com’s transfer tracker had ACC members bringing in just over 80 players through the portal after having more than 100 enter it this offseason. Of the conference’s established members, only four teams had acquired five or more. Together, the newcomers accounted for 19 additions.

U of L was the only team welcoming, and one of two losing, 10 or more. Kelsey’s inaugural haul ranked second in the country on the advanced analytics website’s leaderboard.

How does the rest of the ACC stack up talent-wise? Here’s a breakdown:

Note: Teams are listed in order of their Incoming Transfers Class Rank on EvanMiya. You’ll also see what’s called an Overall Transfer Activity Rank, which evaluates teams’ incoming transfers against their outgoing transfers.

Louisville (No. 2)

Louisville basketball coach Pat Kelsey gives the “L’s” up sign as he arrives for his introduction as head coach on Thursday, March 28, 2024

2023-24 record: 8-24 (3-17)

Incoming transfers (12):

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Publish date : 2024-06-03 09:14:08

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