Pat Kelsey
Pat Kelsey (born May 15, 1975)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Louisville Cardinals
Current conference: Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
Winthrop record: 186-95 (.662)
College of Charleston record: 75-27 (.735)
Louisville record: 0-0 (.000)
Overall record: 261-122 (.681)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (2017, 2021, 2023, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- ACC Regular Season Championships: 0
- CAA Regular Season Championships: 2 (2023, 2024)
- Big South Regular Season Champion: 4 (2016, 2017, 2020, 2021)
- ACC Tournament Championships: 0
- CAA Tournament Championships: 2 (2023, 2024)
- Big South Tournament Champion: 3 (2017, 2020, 2021)
Awards:
- CAA Coach of the Year: 1 (2024)
- Big South Coach of the Year: 1 (2021)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2024-present | Louisville |
| 2021-2024 | College of Charleston |
| 2012-2021 | Winthrop |
| 2009-2012 | Xavier (assoc. HC) |
| 2004-2009 | Wake Forest (asst) |
| 2001-2004 | Wake Forest (DBO) |
Pat Kelsey Facts
- Patrick Kelsey
- Born May 15, 1975
- Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
- Alma Mater: Xavier University (BS, 1998)
- After one year playing for Joby Wright at Wyoming, transferred back home to Cincinnati to play for Skip Prosser at Xavier
- Following graduation, became an assistant coach at Elder HS in Cincinnati
- Joined Prosser‘s staff at Wake Forest in 2001 as Director of Basketball Operations and was promoted to assistant coach in 2004
- Kelsey stayed on the Wake staff under new head coach Dino Gaudio following Prosser‘s tragic passing in 2007
- Returned to his alma mater Xavier in 2009 as associate head coach under Chris Mack
- Hired as the Winthrop head coach in 2012, winning the Big South regular season title in both 2016 and 2017 and making a trip to the 2017 NCAA Tournament via the Big South Tournament auto-bid
- Accepted the head coach position at UMass on March 22, 2017, but changed his mind the following day and ultimately returning to Winthrop
- Won Big South titles in 2020 and 2021, then added Big South Tournament crowns each year to to earn NCAA berths
- In March 2021, Kelsey was announced as the next head coach at College of Charleston
- In his second season at the helm (2022-23), Kelsey led the Cougars to a share of the CAA regular season title and then won the CAA Tournament; entered the NCAA Tournament with 31 wins
- Won the CAA title outright in 2024 for the first time in program history and was named CAA COY
- Left CofC in March 2024 to become the new head coach of the Louisville Cardinals in the ACC
Pat Kelsey Coaching Tree
- Justin Gray (Coastal Carolina, Western Carolina)
- Mark Prosser (Winthrop, Western Carolina)