We now know two more members of Pat Kelsey's Louisville men's basketball coaching staff; one being the first outside hire.

Ronnie Hamilton will be filling one of Kelsey's two open assistant positions after two seasons working under Matt McMahon at LSU, a source confirmed to The Courier Journal on Tuesday. He joins three men making the move to the 502 after serving on Kelsey's staff at Charleston — Thomas Carr, Michael Cassidy and Brian Kloman.

The other is Eli Foy, who just wrapped up his third season as the Cougars' director of sports performance. Kelsey said he would be joining him at U of L on April 5, during an appearance on WLCL 93.9 FM.

The details of their contracts — and Carr, Cassidy and Kloman's — were not available as of Tuesday morning; because the hires had not been made official.

Last January, the NCAA expanded men's and women's basketball coaching staffs from three to five on-court assistants. With Hamilton coming into the fold, Kelsey has one more spot to work with.

He has been allocated $2.1 million to build his staff, according to a signed copy of his Memorandum of Understanding with the U of L Athletic Association obtained by The Courier Journal via open records request.

Kelsey's two other on-court assistants at Charleston were Mitch Johnson (director of basketball operations) and Jermaine Ukaegbu (director of player development).

The former has made a Louisville logo his header photo on X, formerly Twitter; and his bio as of Tuesday morning said he is the Cards' director of basketball operations. But it was unclear at the time of publication whether or not he will serve in an on-court role.

Here's what to know about Hamilton and Foy:

Ronnie Hamilton

Louisville will be the ninth stop on Hamilton's coaching journey, which began in 2003-05 with a stint as a graduate assistant at UNC Pembroke.

From there, he served as an assistant at Tarleton State (2005-08); The Citadel (2008-10); Tulane (2010-12); Houston (2012-14); Middle Tennessee (2014-18) and Ole Miss (2018-22) before landing at LSU.

An Oxford, North Carolina, native, Hamilton had a hand in on-court coaching, scouting and recruiting the past two seasons under McMahon. The Tigers went a combined 31-35 (11-25 SEC) during his time in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

At Ole Miss, he focused primarily on guard play. His highlights from working on Kermit Davis' staff include working with first-team all-conference talent — such as Devontae Shuler, Breein Tyree and Terence Davis — and helping the Rebels assemble a top-25 recruiting class (per Rivals.com) during the 2019 cycle that went down as one of the highest rated in program history.

"You put (players) in competitive situations where they have to make decisions — against pressure, against reads and things like that," Hamilton said in a video for LSU Sports two years ago. "If you do that constantly, then what happens for me — and what we've seen with guys who we've been able to coach and develop — is that they really just become basketball players. You can't label them. (They're) the toughest guys to guard."

It's also worth noting that, during his time at MTSU, he was part of the Blue Raiders' first-round NCAA Tournament upsets of No. 2-seeded Michigan State in 2016 and fifth-seeded Minnesota in 2017.

Hamilton got into coaching basketball when his football career ended. Playing defensive back, he was a four-year letterman at Duke and signed a free-agent contract with the New York Giants but was cut during the preseason.

Eli Foy

During last week's radio appearance, Kelsey called Foy his "secret weapon" and the top strength and conditioning coach in the country as far as basketball's concerned.

"It's so much more than just the schematics and the X's and O's of weight training; because he's phenomenal at that," Kelsey said. "We show recruits, when we do Zoom (meetings) and when they come on visits, his presentation; and you see the transformation — the before-and-after pictures — of what he does to the bodies of our players.

"(He) makes them more athletic, healthier — body composition — the whole deal; but what makes him special is his pulse, his feel, his ability to teach and coach and mentor and inspire.

"I say he's a secret weapon, because he's an extension of the coaching staff. He is a phenomenal recruiter. When he gets in front of parents and student-athletes and sells his vision, it's a game-changer for us."

A native of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Foy is best known for developing Deandre Ayton into the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft during a stint of three years at Arizona, his alma mater, where he was a member of the Wildcats' track and field team. Lauri Markkanen, the No. 7 pick in the 2017 draft, is another disciple.

Foy and Kelsey began working together in 2019, when the former joined the latter's staff at Winthrop.

During an interview the year prior, Foy said a teenage professional Irish dancer, Liam Boyd, was a member of his clientele. With his help, Boyd placed 17th in his age group during the 2018 world championships in Glasgow, Scotland.

Reach Louisville men's basketball reporter Brooks Holton at [email protected] and follow him on X at @brooksHolton.

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