NCAA Tournament March Madness

#38 Clemson

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Projected seed: 8

Between neutral-site knocks over West Virginia and Georgia and resume-enhancing road wins at Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and on the West Coast at Stanford and California, Clemson has proven it can win away from home against quality opposition. Those signature moments are balanced by close losses away at Alabama and at neutral BYU plus damaging conference setbacks at Duke and North Carolina and home slips against NC State and Virginia Tech that keep the resume from moving into the next tier. Nonconference blowouts of lesser opponents pad the ledger but carry little weight, and the remaining home date with Georgia Tech is an opportunity to avoid a bad loss rather than a resume builder. Taken as a whole the profile reads like a tournament team with clear quality wins and road credibility but enough blemishes to justify a middle-range placement.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3New Hampshire349W88-38
11/7Gardner Webb361W97-59
11/11Morehead St281W83-56
11/15@Georgetown84L79-74
11/17North Alabama341W81-61
11/21(N)West Virginia56W70-67
11/23(N)Georgia30W97-94
11/28Alabama A&M298W92-56
12/3@Alabama18L90-84
12/9(N)BYU24L67-64
12/13Mercer180W70-63
12/16South Carolina98W68-61
12/21(N)Cincinnati42W68-65
12/31@Syracuse79W64-61
1/3@Pittsburgh102W73-68
1/7SMU43W74-70
1/10@Notre Dame87W76-61
1/13Boston College161W74-50
1/17Miami FL28W69-59
1/20NC State35L80-76
1/24@Georgia Tech169W77-63
1/31Pittsburgh102W63-52
2/4@Stanford61W66-64
2/7@California70W77-55
2/11Virginia Tech58L76-66
2/14@Duke1L67-54
2/18@Wake Forest76L85-77
2/21Florida St71L70-65
2/28Louisville17W80-75
3/3@North Carolina29L67-63
3/7Georgia Tech16993%