When it comes to basketball, Clemson has always struggled in the ACC. There have been a few good seasons, including a run to the Elite Eight where only a miraculous shot by Tate George kept them from playing Duke for a spot in the Final Four (Christian Laettner hit his own buzzer beater to deny UConn two days later).
Clemson has made the NCAA tournament 13 times, which is 12 more than Northwestern. It ain’t bad. It pops Duke and UNC periodically, mostly at home of course. But it’s not ACC elite.
Brad Brownell loses Al-Amir Dawes and Nick Honor to transfer and both were key members of the rotation with Dawes leading the team in mpg with 29.