Articles in College – Clemson

For the first time in more than a decade, Clemson will play host to the ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships this weekend at the newly renovated Rock Norman Track Complex.

When Brad Brownell heard the news of Oliver Purnell’s abrupt departure from Clemson last Tuesday, he knew “immediately” he was interested in the opening.

It’s not going to be an overnight transition for the Clemson basketball team, but at this rate, it doesn’t look like it will take the Tigers all that long to adjust and fall right in with their new head coach.

Clemson announced Tuesday morning it has hired Brad Brownell, who recently completed his fourth season as head coach at Wright State, to replace Oliver Purnell at the helm of its hoops program.

Though his name had scarcely been mentioned as even in the running, Mississippi State head coach Rick Stansbury emerged Monday morning as the leading candidate to fill the vacancy at the helm of Clemson’s basketball program.

When spring practice closed on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium for the Clemson football team, the tone was set for the summer and beyond by one of the school’s favorite sons.

The spring games at Clemson and South Carolina on Saturday each attracted dozens of recruits, and while there were no commitments made, the Tigers and Gamecocks each put themselves in good positions with some of the prospects.

The two-game lead in the ACC Atlantic Division that the Clemson baseball team took into its weekend series at Duke went up in smoke by the end of the set, as the Tigers dropped two of three to the Blue Devils, while Florida State swept Wake Forest on the road to pull even atop the standings.

Saturday’s Clemson Spring Football Game marked the end of spring practice for the Tigers, and fittingly, the game turned to out to be a telling snapshot of the team’s outlook throughout the spring.

When the Clemson football team takes the field at Memorial Stadium this afternoon, there won’t be anything on the line, and not an awful lot left to prove.

With Clemson’s search to replace Oliver Purnell as its head basketball coach heating up, the most high-profile candidate is already apparently off the board, while several previously off-the-radar names have been added.

The old axiom that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone could very well be how now-former Clemson basketball coach Oliver Purnell’s departure may turn out.

The Clemson rowing team will travel to Los Angeles, Calif. to compete against UCLA and Southern California today.

Upstate tennis fans will have the opportunity to see some of the nation’s elite this weekend, as the 9th-ranked Clemson women’s team will play host to two top ten opponents this weekend at the Hoke Sloan Tennis Center.