Louisville basketball is currently in a heated recruiting battle with Kansas, Kentucky, Oregon, Arkansas, and Indiana for 5-star point guard Taylen Kinney. The Cardinals fans are sweating over this recruit as he is not only the nation's No. 1 point guard in the 2026 class, but with him being a Kentucky native, the fans desperately want him.
Louisville was once the dominant favorite to land Kinney, but after he took a visit to Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks, the Cardinals saw their lead get taken away. Now, the Jayhawks have a commanding lead on Louisville and the rest of the teams still remaining, but Pat Kelsey might have just made the biggest pitch to Kinney yet, and it might have just put Louisville back in position to land Kinney.