Latest Brad Brownell News

So happy together: Syracuse transfer Joseph Girard III helps lead Clemson to Sweet 16

Mar. 27, 2024 20:12 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joseph Girard III had one goal when he entered the transfer portal last year — find a team that would get him back to the Sweet 16. Girard has accomplished that by helping to lead Clemson into the NCAA Tournament's second weekend for the first time since 2018. ...

New rules empowering players have coaches frustrated, contemplating the future of their profession

Mar. 25, 2024 09:51 AM EDT

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Minutes after his team won the Big East Tournament championship, UConn coach Dan Hurley was worrying aloud about one of his freshmen being lured toward the transfer portal with name, image and likeness compensation offers from other schools. Highly recruited...

Chase Hunter scores 20 as Clemson beats Baylor 72-64 in 2nd round of NCAA tourney

Mar. 24, 2024 22:22 PM EDT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Chase Hunter had 20 points and six assists, and No. 6 seed Clemson held off third-seeded Baylor for a 72-64 victory in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. The Tigers advanced to the Sweet 16 for the second time in coach Brad Brownell’s 14...

No more March Madness for New Mexico as Clemson ousts popular Lobos 77-56

Mar. 22, 2024 18:59 PM EDT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Chase Hunter scored 21 points and sixth-seeded Clemson ended No. 11 seed New Mexico's hopes of repeating the Mountain West's run in the NCAA Tournament, beating the Lobos 77-56 on Friday. The Lobos (26-10) came in as the Mountain West Tournament champs, a...

New Mexico Lobos eager to prove Mountain West's strength during March Madness

Mar. 21, 2024 20:23 PM EDT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Jamal Mashburn Jr. feels the New Mexico Lobos are peaking at the right time. They dismiss the idea that the Mountain West Conference tournament champs face extra pressure to make a deep run to follow San Diego State's amazing run to the national championship...

Hall, Clemson take down No. 3 North Carolina 80-76 on the road to bolster NCAA resume

Feb. 06, 2024 22:54 PM EST

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Brad Brownell kept telling his Clemson players that they were a better team than their results had shown so far with their NCAA Tournament hopes in question. Taking down No. 3 North Carolina on the road for only the second time in program history certainly...

Clemson's Brownell: Game 'taken from us' with late foul call in loss at No. 12 Duke

Jan. 27, 2024 21:44 PM EST

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Clemson was on the verge, moments away from its first win in Duke's famously hostile home arena in nearly three decades. Instead, a whistle blew, coach Brad Brownell ripped off his sportscoat and the game hurtled toward a chaotic finish that left the Tigers...

Tyrese Proctor's late free throws help No. 12 Duke hold off Clemson 72-71

Jan. 27, 2024 19:41 PM EST

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke coach Jon Scheyer didn't want to say too much to Tyrese Proctor before the guard headed to the line with 1 second left and the 12th-ranked Blue Devils down a point to Clemson. “I just told him, ‘You’ve got it,'” Scheyer said. Proctor...

No. 21 Clemson snaps 3-game ACC skid with an 89-78 win over Boston College

Jan. 13, 2024 18:20 PM EST

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson coach Brad Brownell brought his three leading scorers — PJ Hall, Joe Girard III and Chase Hunter — into his office after a loss at Miami last week that started a three-game losing streak. “When you guys play poorly,” Brownell told them,...

Miami runs wild in 2nd half, pulls away to top No. 16 Clemson 95-82

Jan. 03, 2024 22:57 PM EST

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Once Miami started making shots, it kept making shots. Nijel Pack scored 20 of his 25 points in the second half in his return to the lineup after a two-week injury absence, Matthew Cleveland and Norchad Omier each added 23 and Miami beat No. 16 Clemson...