Pat Kelsey has struck again in the NCAA transfer portal, this time adding a high-major guard to his inaugural Louisville men's basketball roster.

J'Vonne Hadley, who spent the past two seasons at Colorado, committed to the Cardinals over Southern California on Tuesday after visiting U of L's campus to start the week.

The 6-foot-6, 205-pound senior has one year of eligibility remaining.

Hadley is Kelsey's fourth addition to a transfer portal haul that was sixth on 247Sports' national rankings before his pledge. He joins James Madison wing Terrence Edwards Jr., a redshirt junior, and two players from Kelsey's final Charleston team — junior guard Reyne Smith and freshman forward James Scott — on the 2024-25 roster.

CBS Sports considered Hadley the 35th-best transfer available as of April 13.

"How he might translate into a larger role is tough to project," reporter David Cobb wrote, "but the combination of size and skill make him intriguing."

A St. Paul, Minnesota, native, Hadley started all 36 of Colorado's games this past season. He finished fourth on the team in scoring with 11.6 points on 53.8% shooting and went 20 for 48 (41.7%) from 3-point range across 34.3 minutes per contest.

He was also the Buffaloes' second-best rebounder, grabbing six per game to go along with 88 assists against 47 turnovers, 42 steals and 10 blocks.

Colorado head coach Tad Boyle called Hadley the "heart and soul" and "unsung hero" of his 2023-24 team.

"He does everything," Boyle told The Denver Gazette in December. "He's a really dependable teammate and somebody that, as a coach, I depend on. I don't ever want to take that for granted."

Hadley has described himself as a "junkyard dog."

"I've always prided myself on the defensive end and being that junkyard dog," he told The Denver Gazette. "You can't shut good players down completely; you can just try to limit them. So just taking on that challenge is something that I try to do every night."

Colorado finished the 2023-24 campaign with a 26-11 (13-7 Pac-12) record, ranking as high as 18th in the AP Top 25 poll, and reached the NCAA Tournament for the fist time since 2021.

As a No. 10 seed, the Buffaloes beat Baylor in the First Four, then knocked off seventh-seeded Florida before falling to No. 2 Marquette in the Round of 32.

Hadley averaged 8.3 points on 6-for-16 (37.5%) shooting in addition to 5.3 rebounds and four assists across 37 minutes per contest during March Madness. His best performance in the Big Dance was a 16-point outing against the Gators in Round 1.

For his Colorado career, Hadley chipped in 10.2 points per game on 53.4% shooting (40.8% from 3) while averaging six rebounds, two assists against 1.2 turnovers and 1.1 steals across 31 minutes per contest. He appeared in 58 games, starting 55.

Louisville will be the fourth stop on Hadley's collegiate journey.

He signed with Northeastern in 2020 out of Cretin Derham-Hall High School, then transferred to Indian Hills Community College. As a sophomore there, he earned NJCAA Division I First Team All-America honors.

Per Colorado Athletics' official website, Hadley grew up playing on the AAU circuit with two future NBA lottery picks, Chet Holmgren and Jalen Suggs. He was not a marquee prospect like them coming out of Minnesota, however.

"A lot of people said I couldn't play high-major Division I basketball, so I'm just always continuing to prove people wrong," Hadley told The Denver Gazette. "Every night I come with the mentality that I've got a lot of people to prove wrong and I've got a lot of people I'm trying to do this for."

As of Tuesday, all of the Cards' scholarship players from the 2023-24 season had entered the portal, which is open through May 1.

At the time of publication, four had found new homes: Skyy Clark (UCLA), Tre White (Illinois), JJ Traynor (DePaul) and Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (N.C. State).

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Reach Louisville men's basketball reporter Brooks Holton at bholton@gannett.com and follow him on X at @brooksHolton.

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