Mike Cassidy - Men's Basketball Coach - University of Louisville Athletic

Mike Cassidy

Title:
Assistant Coach

Cassidy will enter his second year as an assistant coach at Louisville under Pat Kelsey in the 2025-26 season.

Cassidy serves as the program's offensive coordinator, creating and implementing the offensive strategy for the Cardinals. Cassidy spent the previous three seasons as an assistant on staff for Kelsey at the College of Charleston.

In the pair's first year in Louisville, the Cardinals produced a 27-8 record finishing second in the ACC with an 18-2 league record. UofL also finished runner-up in the league at the ACC Tournament, making the program's first-ever appearance in an ACC Championship game. The Cards earned an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament as an eight-seed, returning to the Big Dance for the first time since 2019.

Louisville recruited one of the top classes out of the transfer portal after returning no scholarship players from the 2023-24 roster. Chucky Hepburn earned All-ACC First Team honors while also being named the ACC Defensive Player of the Year and an AP Honorable Mention All-American. Terrence Edwards Jr. picked up Third Team All-ACC honors. The Cardinals were one of the most improved teams in the country both in total wins from the previous season and in NET ranking from the end of 2023-24 to the end of 2024-25.

Charleston went 75-27 overall (.735) in the three seasons Cassidy and Kelsey were there, claiming back-to-back Coastal Athletic Association regular season and tournament championships in 2023 and 2024.

Cassidy was an assistant coach for the U19 Australian National Team at the U19 FIBA World Cup in July 2021 just before joining the Charleston staff as an assistant coach. Prior to that, he spent five years playing an integral role on staff with the Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence, a world-class institution dedicated to junior basketball development in Austral and the future Boomers and Opals, who compete for the Australian Men's and Women's National Teams.

With the Centre of Excellence, Cassidy was as an assistant coach competing in the NBL1 (Division II Pro League) in Australia. Additionally, he worked in-step with the NBA Global Academy, which is housed in Canberra, Australia. The Centre of Excellence has produced several NBA stars, including Andrew Bogut, Matthew Dellavedova, Dante Exum, Joe Ingles, Luc Longley, Patty Mills and more.

Cassidy was responsible for nationally identifying future talent for the Australian National teams and individually tailoring athlete development programs while teaching with a focus on shooting and international offensive and defensive trends. He helped lead multiple U19 National Teams and helped steer the U18 National Team to a silver medal at the Albert Schweitzer Tournament, an international competition held in Germany every two years.

A 2018 graduate of the Australian College of Physical Education, Cassidy also has experience as a head coach during the National Basketball League Combine and the Australian Basketball Development Camp. During the latter, he led and managed a staff of 10 coaches and a team of 20 athletes, bringing an impressive resume of recruiting, talent identification and development, and on-court coaching expertise to Louisville.