OXFORD, Miss. — Prior to Clemson’s game at Coastal Carolina on May 14, Monte Lee brought his baseball team together and explained what the stakes were.
At that time, the Tigers had four games left in the regular season and two guaranteed games in the ACC Baseball Tournament. They had six games to impress the NCAA selection committee.
Lee wanted his ball players to understand that all the preseason work, the lifting, the workouts and everything they had been through to that point came down to those six games.
Clemson (34-24) responded the way Lee was hoping they would.