• Louisville basketball's NCAA transfer portal footprint has shrunk entering the 2025-26 season, but there are still more than a dozen former Cardinals hooping elsewhere across Division I. • Pat Kelsey lost only two players to the portal after his first year at the helm. • Most of the familiar faces below played at U of L during the Kenny Payne era.

It's that time of the year again — time to check in on all the former Louisville basketball players who are gearing up for a new season elsewhere after hitting the NCAA transfer portal .

The Cardinals' portal footprint has shrunk from 20 ex-players across Division I in 2024-25 to 16 entering 2025-26. What happened? Six former players reached the end of their collegiate careers, and Pat Kelsey returned five of the seven eligible members of

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