LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Not many people have the opportunity to take a getaway trip to The Bahamas. Later this calendar year, the Louisville men's basketball program will be doing so twice in the span of just a few months.
While Kelsey was busy constructing his roster from scratch, Louisville's administration put together the offseason trip in a very short amount of time. He believes that the foreign tour will serve as a crucial developmental aspect for his squad. When a trip takes a foreign trip, the NCAA allows them to have 10 full practice days on top of the four hours per week of on-court instruction. These practice days are the kind that a team would normally have throughout the course of the regular season, where there aren't any kind of restrictions.
But as we know, talent isn't everything and chemistry also plays a major factor. For example, last offseason, Arkansas assembled an extremely talented team through both the portal and high school. The Razorbacks wound up going just 16-17, and their head coach in Eric Musselman later bolted for USC.to their new environments over that time. Even so, the opportunity for the team to get in more on-court work during the summer will help them get ahead once the preseason rolls around.