Louisville basketball has been the laughing stock of the ACC in recent years. That has all changed under first year head coach Pat Kelsey.

Reyne Smith scored 30 points while matching his career high with 10 3-pointers and No. 25 Louisville won its first game as a ranked team in four years, beating Atlantic Coast Conference newcomer SMU 98-73.

Louisville celebrated its return to the AP Top 25 in a big way Tuesday night in Moody Coliseum in Dallas, obliterating SMU with a dazzling performance in an astonishing 98-73

Louisville (14-5, 7-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) was ranked No. 25 in Monday's AP Top 25 poll as the Cardinals prepare for a Quad 1 contest at SMU (14-4, 5-2 ACC). It will be the first time the two have met as ACC foes.

Reyne Smith scored 30 points while matching his career high with a school-record 10 3-pointers and No. 25 Louisville won its first game as a ranked team

Reyne Smith scored 19 for Louisville as the Cardinals posted an 81-67 wire-to-wire victory over Virginia in Atlantic Coast Conference action on Saturday. Terrence Edwards Jr. added 16 for the

Reyne Smith sank a Louisville-record 10 3-pointers and Chucky Hepburn dished out a program-record 16 assists as the 25th-ranked Cardinals trounced SMU 98-73 on Tuesday in Dallas. Smith poured in a season-high 30 points while James Scott and J'Vonne Hadley each had 16 for Louisville (15-5, 8-1 Atlantic Coast Conference).

Reyne Smith scored 30 points while matching his career high with a school-record 10 3-pointers and No. 25 Louisville won its first game as a ranked team in four years,

Pat Kelsey started with a clean slate at Louisville, where he rebuilt the roster with transfers who had won at other places. Now they are all winning together with the Cardinals, who after two historically bad seasons are on a nine-game winning streak and back in the Top 25 for the first time in four years.

Maxime Raynaud's 28 points and 12 rebounds led host Stanford to an 88-51 blowout win over Miami in an Atlantic Coast Conference game in Northern California on Wednesday night. Raynaud

Just two months into coach Pat Kelsey's first season as head coach, Louisville is not only on its longest winning streak in five years but Monday

Louisville had it all: they won a national championship under legendary coach Rick Pitino in 2013. The Cardinals had made the tournament virtually every season since 2003 under Pitino.