He also was a member of the 2004 USA Basketball Junior World Championship Qualifying Team, earning a gold medal at the event.

He decided to remain at Kansas after Williams left for the University of North Carolina and Bill Self became the head coach.

The Cardinals' leader in field goal percentage (59.7%, fourth in the Big East Conference), Padgett averaged 9.5 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.

Padgett's final year with Louisville came to end in the Elite Eight of the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

[5] After spending the 2008–09 season in Spain, Padgett was named to the Portland Trail Blazers 2009 summer league team.

Padgett then returned to the Louisville program, and was initially hired in the 2014 offseason as assistant video coordinator.

Shortly after he was hired at U of L, he was promoted to director of basketball operations when Andre McGee left to become an assistant with UMKC.

[10] Padgett was named acting head coach at Louisville on September 29, 2017, amid FBI investigations of various basketball programs[11][12] that ultimately led to the firings of both Pitino[13] and athletic director Tom Jurich.