The Clemson Tigers men's basketball team is a college basketball

College basketball

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 program that competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference

Atlantic Coast Conference

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 in the NCAA Division I. The current head coach is Brad Brownell

Brad Brownell

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Team history

Clemson sponsored its first men's basketball team in the 1911–12 season. The Tigers' best NCAA Tournament performance came in 1980

1980 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1980 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 48 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 6, 1980, and ended with the championship game on March 24 in Indianapolis, Indiana...

, when they reached the Elite Eight.

Awards

ACC Coach of the Year

• Cliff Ellis
  Cliff Ellis
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   - 1987, 1990

ACC Player of the Year

• Horace Grant - 1987

ACC Freshman of the Year

• Skip Wise
  Skip Wise
  Allen Harper Wise, Jr. , known as Skip Wise, was an American basketball player.Wise was a sensation as a high school player at Dunbar High School in Baltimore, Maryland...
  
   - 1975
• Greg Buckner
  Greg Buckner
  Gregory Derayle Buckner is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA...
  
   - 1995

ACC All-Defensive Team

• Greg Buckner - 1997
• Vernon Hamilton - 2006 & 2007
• James Mays - 2007 & 2008
• Cliff Hammonds - 2008
• Trevor Booker - 2009 & 2010

All-Southern Conference

• Banks McFadden - 1938, 1939, 1940

All-Americans

• Banks McFadden (1939 Helms Foundation)
• Tree Rollins (1977 Helms, 3rd Team - AP)
• Billy Williams (1980 Helms, Honorable Mention - AP)
• Horace Grant (1987 Helms, 2nd Team - AP)
• Elden Campbell (1990 Honorable Mention - AP)
• Dale Davis (1990 Honorable Mention - AP)
• Sharone Wright (1990 Honorable Mention - AP)

Clemson Ring of Honor

• Banks McFadden
• Dale Davis

Retired Jerseys

• 23 - Banks McFadden
• 30 - Tree Rollins
• 34 - Dale Davis

All-ACC First Team

• Choppy Patterson - 1960
• Randy Mahaffey - 1967
• Skip Wise - 1975
• Billy Williams
  Billy Williams (basketball)
  Billy Williams is a retired American basketball player who played one year at Brevard Junior College and three years at Clemson University, before being drafted by the Houston Rockets in the 1980 NBA Draft. However, he did not play in the NBA.-References:...
  
   - 1980
• Horace Grant - 1987
• Dale Davis
  Dale Davis (basketball)
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   - 1990
• Elden Campbell
  Elden Campbell
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   - 1990
• Will Solomon
  Will Solomon
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   - 2000
• Ed Scott - 2003
• Trevor Booker
  Trevor Booker
  Trevor Fitzgerald Booker is an American professional basketball player with the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association. He was the starting power forward at Clemson University prior to playing in the NBA...
  
   - 2010

All-ACC Second Team

• Bill Yarborough - 1955 & 1956
• Choppy Patterson - 1961
• Jim Brennan - 1963 & 1964
• Randy Mahaffey - 1965
• Jim Sutherland - 1967
• Butch Zatezalo - 1968, 1969, 1970
• Tree Rollins
  Tree Rollins
  Wayne Monte "Tree" Rollins is a retired American professional basketball player who played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets and Orlando Magic. He was primarily known under his playing name, Tree...
  
   - 1975, 1976, 1977
• Stan Rome
  Stan Rome
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   - 1977
• Larry Nance - 1981
• Vince Hamilton - 1982
• Elden Campbell - 1989
• Dale Davis - 1991
• Sharone Wright
  Sharone Wright
  Sharone Addaryl Wright is a retired American professional basketball player.He played collegiately at Clemson University from 1990 until 1994....
  
   - 1994
• Greg Buckner - 1997, 1998
• Terrell McIntyre
  Terrell McIntyre
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   - 1997, 1999
• Will Solomon - 2001
• K.C. Rivers
  K.C. Rivers
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   - 2008
• Trevor Booker
  Trevor Booker
  Trevor Fitzgerald Booker is an American professional basketball player with the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association. He was the starting power forward at Clemson University prior to playing in the NBA...
  
   - 2009

All-ACC Third Team

• Horace Grant - 1987
• Elden Campbell - 1988
• Dale Davis - 1989
• Sharone Wright - 1993
• Chris Whitney
  Chris Whitney
  Christopher Antoine Whitney is a former American professional basketball player.A 6'0" point guard from Clemson University, Whitney was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the second round of the 1993 NBA Draft...
  
   - 1993
• Devin Gray - 1994
• Terrell McIntyre - 1998
• Ed Scott - 2002
• Sharrod Ford
  Sharrod Ford
  Sharrod Ford is an American professional basketball player.Ford, a 6'9" forward, attended Clemson University from 2001-2005...
  
   - 2005
• Cliff Hammonds - 2008

Home courts

• Clemson Field House
  Fike Recreation Center
  Fike Recreation Center, originally known as Clemson Field House, is an on-campus recreation facility at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. It houses several gymnasiums, a pool, a fitness atrium, racquetball courts, an indoor walk/jog/run track, and a climbing wall...
  
  : 1930–1968
• Littlejohn Coliseum
  Littlejohn Coliseum
  J.C. Littlejohn Coliseum, usually known as Littlejohn Coliseum, is a 10,325-seat multi-purpose arena in Clemson, South Carolina. It is home to the Clemson University Tigers men's and women's basketball teams. It is also the site of Clemson graduations and the Clemson Career Fair...
  
  : November 30, 1968–February 23, 2002; January 5, 2003–Present
• Civic Center of Anderson
  Civic Center of Anderson
  The Civic Center of Anderson is part of a larger entertainment complex in Anderson, South Carolina, that also features baseball and soccer fields, tennis courts, an amphitheatre, a playground, and conference center. Together, the facility is known as the Anderson Sports and Entertainment Center...
  
  : November 13, 2002–December 31, 2002, (For eight games as Littlejohn Coliseum was undergoing renovations)

Current coaching staff

• Head coach: Brad Brownell
  Brad Brownell
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• Associate head coach: Rick Ray
• Assistant coach: Mike Winiecki
• Assistant coach: Earl Grant
• Director of Basketball Operations: Dick Bender

Season-by-season results

External links

• ClemsonTigers.com - Men's Basketball (Official Site)