When Louisville visits SMU on Tuesday night in Dallas, the Cardinals will do so as a nationally-ranked team.Just 8-24 a season ago, Pat Kelsey is turning the tide in his first year as head coach, and the nation is taking notice.Louisville (14-5, 7-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) was ranked No. 25 in Monday’s AP Top 25 poll as the Cardinals prepare for a Quad 1 contest at SMU (14-4, 5-2 ACC). It will be the first time the two have met as ACC foes.”I don’t really think about those things,” Kelsey said Monday when asked about the likelihood of being ranked and its impact. “Things like that, whether it’s a winning streak or being ranked, are good for a lot of things. I appreciate what comes with some success that you’ve had.”But a winning streak is all in the past. Your ranking is about what you’ve done up to this point, not what you’re doing moving forward. All we focus is on and stress is the current thing.”In many ways, SMU and Louisville are following the same trajectory this season, with several similarities underscoring both teams’ resurgence.Both are led by new head coaches: Andy Enfield at SMU, Kelsey at Louisville. They each sit in the top half of the ACC standings: Louisville tied for second, SMU knotted at fifth. Against ACC opponents, they both rank in the conference’s top three in points per game (SMU averaging 79.9 ppg, Louisville at 78.8).For SMU, which went 10-22 two seasons ago, the Mustangs have seamlessly made the jump from the American Athletic Conference to the ACC. They turned heads by dropping 117 points on Miami last Saturday, the highest-scoring performance in an ACC game since Wake Forest put up 119 at North Carolina in 2003.But it was the defense that Enfield keyed in on postgame. He pointed to SMU’s 54-52 win over Virginia three days prior.