Thomas Carr - Men's Basketball Coach - University of Louisville Athletic

Thomas Carr

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
tcarr@gocards.com

Thomas Carr enters his second season at the University of Louisville as an assistant coach under Pat Kelsey in 2025-26. Carr spent the previous two seasons (2022-23, 2023-24) on College of Charleston’s staff with Kelsey.

In Carr'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.

Carr helped Kelsey recruit an entirely new team in 2024-25, returning no scholarship players from the previous season. 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.

In Carr's previous two seasons with Kelsey at Charleston, the Cougars racked up a 58-12 record that included two regular season CAA Championships and two CAA Tournament championships.

Carr came to Charleston after serving for two years as Athletics Director at national high school powerhouse Word of God Christian Academy in Raleigh, N.C. During that time, he also connected with numerous coaching staffs across the country as Scouting Director of Your Fourth Assistant, while also working as Director of Team Loaded NC, one of the premier AAU programs in the country.

Before that, Carr spent five combined seasons as an assistant coach under current NC State head coach Kevin Keatts with both the Wolfpack and UNC Wilmington. During the 2017-18 and 2018-19 campaigns, NC State went 45-24, highlighted by a 2018 NCAA Tournament berth.

Carr’s time at UNC Wilmington was transformative for the program, producing three straight regular season CAA championships, two CAA Tournament titles and back-to-back NCAA trips in 2016 and 2017. Carr specifically coached the Seahawks’ backcourt and helped cultivate six players who received all-conference honors in three years.

Carr broke into the Division I coaching ranks in 2013-14 as an assistant coach at East Tennessee State with the Bucs making a nine-win improvement from the previous season.

He began his coaching career at Chipola College in 2009, then joined Keatts for his final season at Hargrave Military Academy in 2010-11. That year, Hargrave finished the season as the No. 1 prep school in the country and saw eight players sign D-I scholarships. Carr also spent one season leading George Washington High School to a 25-3 mark as the head varsity coach before landing the assistant coach position at East Tennessee State.

Carr was a two-year captain at Pfeiffer University from 2006-08 and finished second in the country in 3-pointers made.