When Chris Mack was hired as Louisville basketball’s head coach, he was tasked with the complete rebuilding of a program’s culture. He wow-ed with his vision for the future, and executed on the recruiting trail, hauling in a top-5 class for 2019.
However, Mack still faced a daunting task in 2018-19 after Louisville lost four starters- Deng Adel, Ray Spalding, Quentin Snider, and Anas Mahmoud- and had no incoming recruits. The Cards’s best returning players contributed sparingly in 2017-18, and Mack knew the cupboard was pretty bare. He had to somehow figure out a way to assemble a roster of 9-10 scholarship players in order to even have a chance at finishing above .