LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Pat Kelsey has nine healthy fingers, but for Tuesday night’s 96-88 victory over Kentucky, he’d gladly have sacrificed all ten.

They say you can't put a price on a win over your arch-rival. Turns out, you can. It's one dislocated digit, incurred in the line of jubilation, after a postgame mosh pit with your assistant coaches breaks out in the practice gym of the KFC Yum! Center.

The Louisville coach took off on his best coming-down-the-third-base-line-after-a-home-run trot and zigged when a curtain zagged. The finger bent sideways. Hey Siri, is it supposed to bend like that?

No, it is not. Call it the price of joy. Or the deductible on relevance.

It wasn’t the only thing that pointed a new direction on a night when Louisville basketball recharted its course.

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