In April of 2018, freshly minted Louisville basketball head coach Chris Mack was searching for answers.
Weeks removed from an unexpected early exit from the NCAA tournament, and his subsequent stepping down from his position at Xavier, Mack took over a Louisville program with a lot more questions than answers.
Louisville was coming off of a wild year under interim head coach David Padgett, who narrowly missed the NCAA tournament in his first try. However, the program was down scholarships and down resources after having an unfortunate shadow cast upon it by NCAA and FBI scandals. Mack would have to begin his tenure taking over a team that lost four out of five of it’s starters, and only had six remaining scholarship players who had played a single second in a Louisville uniform.