Preview: Clemson Tigers
Mar 5th Update:
Stanford as the #10 seed plays today against Clemson, the #14 seed, in the ACC tournament played at Greensboro, NC. Clemson ended the season with a 13-16 overall record and was 6-12 in conference. Clemson has a #64 net ranking while Stanford's net ranking is #48.
Stanford lost in overtime to Clemson on the road on January 5th 61-65 - here's a Recap of that game. The box score from that game is shown below. Loyal McQueen, #1, scored 26 points and had 6 assists to lead the way for the Tigers.
Like Stanford, Clemson has improved and has some impressive games against strong ACC teams in recent weeks. They had an impressive home loss to a strong Virginia Tech team in their last game, losing 76-78. On Feb 13 they beat the then #19 Georgia Tech at home 68-61, and their prior home game lost to #13 North Carolina 51-53.
Stanford of course has also improved a lot so the game is likely to be highly competitive once again.
The current season stats for Clemson are shown below. McQueen is their scoring leader at 13.5 ppg. The team has several excellent 3 point shooters so the game may come down to who shoots and defends threes the best.
5:46 Video highlights from their last game against Virginia Tech is also included below.
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Last Season: 12-19 and 5 –13 in league play
The Coaches:
Shawn Poppie is in his first season as Head Coach coming from Tennessee Chattanooga where he was 48-18 and with 28 wins this past season.
Chris Ayers is the Associate Head Coach. He is in his first season after 6 years at Ole Miss.
Sydni Means is in her first year coming from Tulsa.
Katelyn Grisillo is in her first year Coming from Tennessee Chattanooga.
Losses:
Makayla Elmore, 4 ppg and 5 rebounds. Transfer to Pitt.
Ruby Winterhorn, 12 ppg and 5 rebounds. Transfer to Tennessee.
And more but hard to figure out who.
Additions:
Loyal McQueen 5-8 Guard Grad student transfer from Alabama where she averaged 10 ppg.
Jody Griggs 6-2 Soph transfer from Kentucky where she played just a few minutes.
Summah Evans 6-0 Wing a Grad Transfer from Mercer where last season she averaged 13 ppg.
Mia Moore 5-6 JR Guard a transfer from UAB where she averaged 15 ppg.
Tessa Miller 6-2 Sr Forward transfer from Belmont where she averaged 15 ppg and 5 rebounds while shooting 58% from the floor.
Hannah Kohn 5-9 Soph Guard transfer from Chattanooga where she made 68 threes at 46%.
Anya Poole 6-2 Grad Student Forward transfer from North Carolina where she started all but one game as a Soph and JR. She played less last season. Poole was a 5 star recruit out of HS.
Raven Thompson 5-10 Jr Forward transfer from Chattanooga where she averaged 14 points and 7 rebounds.
Kinsley Barrington, 6-0 Grad Student Forward a transfer from Cal Baptist where she averaged 7 points and 4 rebounds. Barrington played at Southern Utah first.
Schedule:
Florida and South Carolina are the highlights in this rebuilding year.
The Team:
Mackenzie Kramer 5-9 Guard Grad student who averaged 8 ppg.
Kylie Kellerman 5-6 Soph Guard who played little.
Maddie Cluse 5-10 JR Guard who was averaging 7 ppg in 13 games before a season ending injury. At Miami the season before she averaged 15 ppg.
Madi Ott, 5-10 Sr Guard who averaged 2 ppg.
Eno Inyang, 6-2 Sr Post who averaged 4 points and 4 rebounds.
Prediction:
Nine transfers into Clemson so a real rebuilding with their new coaching staff.
2025 Recruiting:
Hollard Harris, 6-1 Wing ranked # 42.
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