CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Louisville guard J’Vonne Hadley remembers walking into a grocery store near campus last fall and some Cardinals fans politely encouraging him to go win some games.

This year they clearly want more.

“This year, you see people and they’re like ‘Hang a banner!,’” Hadley said with a laugh.

Expectations are clearly on the rise in Louisville, and deservedly so.

A year ago, the Cardinals hired Pat Kelsey to resurrect a program that had gone 12-52 overall and 5-35 in Atlantic Coast Conference play in two seasons under his predecessor, Kenny Payne. One of basketball’s most storied programs, it felt like, had hit rock bottom.

Kelsey responded by leading the Cardinals from out of the ACC cellar to a 27-8 record and a berth in the conference tournament championship game, wh

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