TAMPA, Fla. — Going to the NCAA Tournament has never been a regularity for Clemson basketball.
When the Tigers, the No. 8 seed, play No. 9 Iowa Friday night in the First Round of the South Regional from Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, Fla., it will be just the 16th tournament appearance for a program that has played for 115 years. Granted, the tournament did not allow at-large bids until 1975, but even when the field expanded to 48 teams in 1980, the program has not played in the Big Dance with regularity.
But maybe that is changing at Clemson.