Louisville arrived this week at the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Charlotte, N.C., as the hottest team in the league, having won nine straight games and 19 of its past 20. It's a remarkable turnaround from last season, when the Cardinals entered the event on a seven-game losing streak and were one-and-done, falling to North Carolina State to close a dreadful 8-24 season. Thursday night, the orchestrator of the Cardinals' astonishing transformation, Pat Kelsey, will lead 13th-ranked and second-seeded Louisville (25-6) against seventh-seeded Stanford (20-12) in the ACC quarterfinals. Less than a year ago, Kelsey took over a program that had gone 12-52 in two seasons under Kenny Payne and had no returning scholarship players.
No. 13 Louisville puts 9-game win streak on line vs. Stanford
