The 2022–23 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team represents the University of Louisville during the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team plays its home games on Denny Crum Court at the KFC Yum! Center in downtown Louisville, Kentucky as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They are led by first-year head coach Kenny Payne. The team's 0–7 start is their worst since the 1940–41 season, when the Cardinals began the season 0–11. The Cardinals are contending with California for the worst start in the last 40 years for any team that was at the time a member of a power conference, defined here as a member of a Power Five conference or the Big East Conference. California was the first such team to fall to 0–7, doing so on November 26, 2022; Louisville reached that m