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November 18, 2025 12 mins
Lance talks with Louisville men's basketball coach Pat Kelsey.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
The following takes place between six pm and seven pm.
You want answers.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I think I'm entitled.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
You want answer the truth. You can't handle.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
The truth, truth, the truth. All right, let's get to it.
Friday night hoops at Heritage Banks Center. Buckle up, you
see Bearcats and the sixth rank Louisville Cardinals. Get it
on six point thirty tip. It's the Hoops Classic put
on by b DG Global Sports. My first guest is
head coach of the four and O Cardinals. He's part

(00:42):
of the first family of Cincinnati Sports, the Kelsey family.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
That would be Pat Kelsey.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
How are you hi, Lance? How are you? Thanks for
having me on?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
It is great here in your voice, and you know
I was.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
I was gonna ask you what most impressed you about
your team's foreign start, But I'm going to take a
guess and looking at the notes today, you guys have
ninety assists on one hundred and thirty three baskets. That's
sixty eight percent. You're you're dishing twenty two assists per game.
You gotta love the sharing on this team.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, we have a selfless team, Lance that shares the
ball and gives up good for great but we got
what we got our work cut out for us on Friday.
Coach Miller's Bearcatzer one of the best defensive teams in
the country and in fact Ken Palm, which you know
coaches really value that ranking system. It has them the

(01:36):
number two defense in the entire country. So you talk
about our ability to share the ball and score the ball,
and that's been the hallmark of the first four games. Well,
we have a huge challenge at Heritage Bank Arena on
Friday at six o'clock, so hoping for a big crowd,
big time college basketball atmosphere.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, you have a freshman guard who is certainly sharing
it and scoring it. Tell everybody about Mikel Brown junior,
who's averaging twenty four points a game and six assists
per game.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, Michel's a special talent, an extremely decorated player out
of high school. Obviously, you know McDonald's All American, all
the stars that you can imagine. You know that the
draft boards have his name all over it and all
that stuff. I say all that to talk about. The
most impressive thing about the young man is his humility.

(02:29):
It's the type of teammate he is, It's his coach ability,
if you met him and you walked in a room
and had a conversation with him, you would never ever
know that he had all these accolades and stars. And
he's just a world class young man. And he's a
terrific basketball player, special talent, great basketball mind and thinker, playmaker,

(02:54):
can really really put the ball in the basket. He's
got a complete game.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Pat I was talking with Brooks Downing the other night
from BDG Global Sports, who's putting on this event, and
we talked about how putting together a matchup like this
you need coaches who are willing and interested in doing
it to begin with. What made this matchup appealing? What
made this adventure makes sense for your team?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, you know, we put together lance arguably the most
difficult non conference schedule in the country if you look
at and I'm not looking anywhere past Friday, but it's like,
we got the Lakers next, and then we got the Celtics,
and I think we play the Bulls, then we go
on the West Coast and we got the Lakers. So,
you know, I have so much respect for Wes.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I know that they're very well coached.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
It's gonna be a terrific challenge and ultimately at the
end of the day, when you get to the end
of the season, you want to be able, you know,
to have your resume in front of that committee and
put yourself in the best position possible. You know, we
had a magical year last year. We went eighteen and
two in the ACC he won twenty seven games, and

(04:10):
then you know, somehow we got an eight seed, and
we just wanted to make sure that we put ourselves
in a position that if we if we do what
we're supposed to do throughout the course of the year
and win a high percentage of our games with the
schedule we're playing, that that won't happen again.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Pat.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
As you know, when we were growing up, Heritage Bank
Center was known as Riverfront Coliseum. Is it safe to
say you probably attended more than a few games in
your day.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Man, it's crazy Lands. It's like the nostalgia getting ready
to go up there because I grew up going there.
One of my first memories is going to a Crosstown shootout.
I was trying to figure out the year earlier today.
It might have been seventy nine or eighty, I want

(04:59):
to say. Roger mcclindon was playing in the game. I
want to say, Anthony Hicks, the great Anthony Hicks from
Xavier was playing in the game, and I just remember
being I think it was my first basketball experience, like
at a big time arena, and I just thought it
was so cool that they brought the floor in. It
was a portable floor, and I just the spectacle of

(05:22):
the lights. And then I went home that night and
I cut up a bunch of cardboard boxes, went down
in the basement and created like my own Riverfront Coliseum floor.
And to know that I'm going there to coach there
where I grew up, going to Disney on ice and
concerts and all kinds of stuff. It's kind of a
full circle moment.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
That is fantastic.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Pat Kelsey hanging out just a couple more minutes on
Sports Talk. All right, I gotta ask you a medical question.
Did you in fact suffer an injury to your finger
after the Kentucky win?

Speaker 1 (05:52):
How are you? Are you on the injured list at
this moment? Yeah, I'm a knucklehead.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
I mean, no pun intended, so right about my middle finger,
right about the knuckle. I dislocated my finger in the
celebration after the Kentucky game. Literally, Lance, my finger went
straight up to the knuckle and then it made an
abrupt right hand ninety degree turn. And I looked down

(06:18):
and the adrenaline was just pumping through my body because
we had just beat Kentucky, so I didn't really feel
it very much. And I went over to the trainer,
and you know, one of my assistant coaches got nauseous.
He started throwing up because it looks so nasty. Doctor
comes in and starts yanking on it. Straightened it out.
But if it takes losing a digit to beat Kentucky,
you can take all of.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Them, no doubt, No doubt about that. Now, Now I
watch your locker room dance moves. I've seen them in
person actor victories.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm curious.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Have your kids ever offered a critique of your dance moves?

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh, you gushed, aren't right? They are embarrassed, like you
wouldn't believe Dad is a professional. Embarrassed my kids? Guy
and I got no dancings. But you know what, Lance
and Skip Prosser used to say this, you got to
enjoy the wins, and it doesn't matter if it's a
first seat game of the season against South Carolina State

(07:11):
or it's one against Kentucky. Like I tell our guys
all the time, like we worked really hard, man, like
the accountability on a daily basis, on a repetition basis,
and practice. When you win, you got to enjoy it.
I never want to be that guy that's just relieved
that we didn't lose. So the guys get a kick
out of some of my horrible dance moves and we

(07:31):
have a good time in the locker room. I love it.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Last question for you, is it safe to say the
Kelsey family will be representing at Heritage Bank Center on
Friday Night?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
You know it? Now there's some corn. It's gonna be
some torn people in the family because the Elder Panthers.
The Elder Panthers twelve and zero, one of the greatest
seasons in the story history of Elder football is taken
on their rival, those Bombers from North Bend Road. Uh.

(08:06):
Kobe Rogers on our team here at Louisville as a
Saint X Balmer. I never thought I'd recruit a Saint
X balmer, but Kobe Rogers changed my mind. So now
I have a different mindset because he's one of my
favorite players. I ever coached, so I didn't. There'll be
a ton of Kelsey's at Riverfront Coliseum, but there might
be a few that's that that that sneak over to

(08:28):
uh up the Mason. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
And and because you're in the coaching bubble, you you
probably haven't heard today they've officially moved that to pay
Corps so they can hold a bigger crowd, and they're
selling tickets tomorrow morning. It's gonna be nuts down Are
you serious?

Speaker 2 (08:42):
What time's that at card Games? At six? Maybe I
can get over there for the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, that I think that kicks at seven over at
pay Corps. It's gonna be nuts.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, sounds like a Cincinnati weekend. We got the Cardinals, Bearcats,
Elder Saint X. It's about as big as it gets Lance.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
No doubt, no doubt. Hey, I know we're we're about
seventy two hours away. I know you're busy.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
I really appreciate you making time tonight. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, but hey, everybody gets your ticket. It's gonna be
a big time college atmosphere, two big time programs. Let's
get Let's get the old the arena formerly known as
Riverfront Coliseum Heritage Banks Center, Rocket.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Thanks Pat, Hi, Buddy stee Lance.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
All right, there you go, Pat Kelsey, head coach the
sixth ranked Louisville Cardinals. Friday Night place to be Epicenter
of Hoops, Heritage Bank Center, six thirty tip tickets at
ticketmaster dot com right now, ticketmaster dot com. U see
versus number sixth ranked Louisville A six thirty tip on
Friday Night the Hoops Classic.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Always good. Catch it up with Pat. Yeah that finger.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
I saw the bandage and then I heard him tell
the story, and I thought, oh.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Man, I gotta ask you about this. Turn it sideways.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Take time now, come back, give you some headlines, and
then give you college basketball playing here with the Musketeers ahead.
It's Arnel Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey, Chevrolet seven
Hunter WLW Quick Reds note for a before I hand
things off to Joe and Byron. After news, the Reds
selected the contracts of infielders Edwin Arroyo and Leo Balcazar

(10:22):
from Double A Chattanooga Today and of outfit or Hector
Rodriguez from Triple A Louisville. The move protects each of
those three from the upcoming rule five draft. The Reds
also designated for assignment Carson Spires. That opened up a
forty man spot to protect all three players, So the
Reds forty man sits at forty at this moment. Morning

(10:43):
crowd of twelve thousand and six eighty seven watched the
Cyclones beat the Toledo Walleye five to four in overtime
at Heritage Bank Center. Luke Grainger recorded the winner was
field trip day ten thirty am, drop of the puck
with kids on hand, twelve thousand, six eighty seven. Well
done hockey in Michigan State squaring off at Madison Square
Garden in a matter of minutes on ESPN fifteen thirty

(11:06):
and Xavier is at Centas versus Old Dominion the twenty
fifth anniversary of the first ever game played at Centaz
Center in two thousand. Joe and Byron will set it
up starting at six thirty. By the way, in that game,
the opening game, they beat Miami sixty eight to fifty four.
That was Skip Prosser's squad versus Charlie Coles squad. Sophomore

(11:29):
David West seventeen points, thirteen boards, Freshman Romaine Soado thirteen
points and sophomore Lionel Chalmers eight points, six assists, four steals,
and two rebounds in the win. Richard Patino tonight looking
for career win number two fifty, the Musketeers attempting to
snap a two game losing streak. Also, NKU this weekend

(11:52):
is hosting the Horizon League Volleyball Championship starting Friday at
Truest Arena. The Norris were crowned regular season conference champs
for the first time since joining the Horizon. They went
seventeen and one in conference play and they have won
thirteen consecutive matches heading into the tournament. Tickets available at
nkunors dot com. And finally, the Kroger Queens City Classic

(12:13):
is moving from tPCS tpc's Riverbend to Mcatewah Country Club
in twenty twenty six. The event will run May eleventh
through the seventeenth.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Man, I had so much more, but I'm out of time.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Stick Around Joe and Byron set up the Musketeers AFTERNOWS.
This has been RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey
Chevrolet seven hundred WLW

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