The Clemson Tigers men’s basketball team is coming off a run to the Elite Eight and is in the running for a four-star guard who will reveal his collegiate home next week.
While this recent run is helping the Tigers in their recruiting pursuit, their recent record in the ACC has kept them among the top teams in the league.
College Basketball Report compiled the history of all power conference teams that participated in the league over their last 200 games. For the ACC, considering a slate of 18 league games, that’s a sample of approximately 11 seasons.
While it’s logical to assume Duke would lead that ranking, the Tigers aren’t far from fourth on their own.
Clemson is 121-79 with a .605 winning percentage. That puts the Tigers tied with Virginia Tech and one game behind Florida State, which went 122-78 in the same time frame.
A couple more wins and the Tigers would be right behind North Carolina (133-67) in fourth place.
The Tar Heels were third, with only Duke (152-48) and Virginia (149-51) ahead of them.
Within that time period, Duke won the 2015 national title, North Carolina won the 2017 national title, and Virginia won the 2019 national title.
The Blue Devils and Tar Heels both reached the 2022 Final Four, and UNC beat Duke to reach the national title game before losing to Kansas.
In the same time frame, the Tigers have reached the NCAA Tournament three times: 2018, 2021 and 2024.
Clemson is coming off its best season on the court since 1980, the last time they reached the Elite Eight. In March, Clemson was the No. 6 seed and defeated No. 11 New Mexico, No. 3 Baylor and No. 2 Arizona before falling to No. 4 Alabama, one step away from the Final Four.
Coach Brad Brownell has led the Tigers since 2010 and has won 265 games in that span. Since the 2017-18 season, he has led the Tigers to 20 or more wins four times, three NCAA Tournament appearances and two NIT appearances.
For the upcoming season, Clemson has begun preparing its non-conference schedule. The Tigers already have home games scheduled against Charleston Southern, Eastern Kentucky, Florida A&M, Kentucky, Memphis and Radford.
Clemson’s two real road games will be against Boise State and in-state rival South Carolina, while they are scheduled to participate in a Thanksgiving MTE in Daytona Beach, Florida.
While Clemson is losing star forward PJ Hall to the NBA Draft, Brownell and his staff have retained talent and made a series of transfers that they hope will allow them to take the next step in 2024-25 and challenge for the program’s top spot. in the NBA. The last four.
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