Pat Kelsey came running onto the court at the KFC Yum! Center, grabbing a whistle from a manager without slowing down and starting a vibrant one-hour walkthrough for his Louisville Cardinals. The opponent that night was the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. There was no time to waste.
It was 10:05 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28, and Kelsey had spent a couple of days stewing over his zone offense, knowing Louisville would have to navigate Steve Forbes’s confusing and combative 1-3-1 defense. By Sunday night, Kelsey and his staff had scrapped their plan and started over, implementing a different attack for this game.
