Only 26 days remain until the Clemson Tigers men’s basketball team opens the 2024-25 regular season at Littlejohn Coliseum.
Earlier this week, CBS Sports college basketball expert Gary Parrish made his ACC predictions for the season ahead. To no real surprise, Parrish projects Duke and freshman phenom Cooper Flagg to finish first in the ACC with North Carolina second.
Parrish forecasts Clemson to finish fourth in the ACC behind Duke, North Carolina and Wake Forest.
Per Parrish’s projections:
“Whereas Wake Forest benefitted from its best player (Hunter Sallis) withdrawing from the NBA Draft and returning to school, Clemson was not as fortunate. PJ Hall remained in — only to go undrafted. It was a good development for neither him nor the Tigers, who are coming off of just the second trip to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament in program history. Still, Clemson should be back in the NCAA Tournament this season thanks to the return of Chase Hunter, a 6-4 guard who averaged 12.9 points and 3.2 assists last season. This will actually be his sixth year at Clemson, meaning Hunter will soon be one of the few student-athletes in history to appear in six different seasons for the same school.”
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Coach Brad Brownell’s team finished tied for fifth in the final ACC regular-season standings at 11-9 in conference play. They made the NCAA Tournament as a No. 6 seed.
The Tigers then reeled off three straight wins against New Mexico, No. 3 seed Baylor and No. 2 seed Arizona before falling 89-82 to Alabama in the Elite Eight in Los Angeles.
Clemson opens the regular season at Littlejohn Coliseum against Charleston Southern on Nov. 4. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. ET.
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