Clemson basketball coach Brad Brownell knew entering the 2017-18 season that the Tigers had to win.
Clemson had failed to reach the NCAA Tournament for six consecutive years, and if Brownell was going to have an opportunity to continue to lead Clemson’s program the Tigers needed to have some success.
“Certainly I met with our staff and talked with them about what we were doing. I had a guy who came onto our staff last year, and I told him, ‘Hey man, we need to win,’” Brownell said Wednesday at ACC Operation Basketball in Charlotte. “He knew that.