2008–09 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team

2008–09 Clemson Tigers men's basketball
Charleston Classic Champions
NCAA Tournament, At-Large Bid
Conference Atlantic Coast Conference
Ranking
Coaches #26
AP #24
2008–09 record 23–9 (9–7 ACC)
Head coach Oliver Purnell
Assistant coach Ron Bradley
Assistant coach Frank Smith
Assistant coach Josh Postorino
Home arena Littlejohn Coliseum
Seasons
« 2007–08 2009–10 »
2008–09 ACC men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#2 North Carolina 13   3   .813     34   4   .895
#6 Duke† 11   5   .688     30   7   .811
#12 Wake Forest 11   5   .688     24   7   .774
#16 Florida State 10   6   .625     25   10   .714
#24 Clemson 9   7   .563     23   9   .719
Boston College 9   7   .563     22   12   .647
Maryland 7   9   .438     21   14   .600
Virginia Tech 7   9   .438     19   15   .559
Miami 7   9   .438     19   13   .594
North Carolina St 6   10   .375     16   14   .533
Virginia 4   12   .250     10   18   .357
Georgia Tech 2   14   .125     12   19   .387
† ACC Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2008–09 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team represented Clemson University. The Head Coach is Oliver Purnell. The team played its home games in Littlejohn Coliseum in Clemson, South Carolina. All games were produced and broadcast locally by the Clemson Tigers Sports Network.

Contents

Pre-season

On Tuesday, October 21, 2008 the NCAA suspended Freshman Catalin Baciu for the first five games of the season for his participation with a Romanian professional basketball team. The term of the suspension equals the number of games Baciu played as a 15-year-old for U Mobitelco Cluj, a club team that plays in Romania’s top pro division, Divizia A. Although Baciu was not paid for his participation, NCAA rules prohibit student-athletes from playing on a professional team, regardless of whether they are employed. He played for a total of four minutes in his five games with U Mobitelco Cluj.[1]

On Sunday, October 26, 2008, members of the ACC media were polled and picked Clemson to finish fifth in the conference behind North Carolina, Duke, Wake Forest and Miami respectively.[2]

Regular season

On Sunday, November 16, 2008, The Tigers won the inaugural Charleston Classic 8-team tournament in Charleston, SC. This marks the 25th time in school history Clemson has won a regular season tournament.[3]

On Saturday, November 22, 2008, Clemson beat Charlotte 71–70 at Halton Arena, marking the first time ever a current member of the Atlantic Coast Conference has played at Charlotte. (Miami played during there during their time as a member of the Big East).

On Wednesday, January 21, 2009, Clemson lost to North Carolina 94–70. This extended the NCAA record for the longest road losing streak against one opponent to 54 games. This also ended Clemson's streak of not losing back-to-back ACC games that dated back to the 2006–07 season.

On Sunday, January 25, 2009, with a 73–59 victory over Georgia Tech, Senior Guard K.C. Rivers broke the team record for most career wins as a player with 85. The previous record of 84 was co-held Cliff Hammonds and Elden Campbell.

On Monday, February 2, 2009, EA Sports announced that Littlejohn Coliseum was one of the Top-15 toughest places to play in College Basketball. Through an online poll, Fans determined 15 finalists, whose home courts were judged to be the most difficult for opposing teams to play in. These results will form an integral part of a new game mode in the EA SPORTS NCAA Basketball videogame franchise for 2009–10.[4]

On Wednesday, February 4, 2009, Clemson defeated No. 3 Duke in Littlejohn Coliseum by a score of 74–47. With the win, Clemson snapped a 22-game regular season losing streak to the Blue Devils dating back to January 7, 1997. The win was also Clemson's first win over a top-5 team since a victory over No. 5 Virginia in 2002.

The 27-point victory was Clemson's largest margin of victory against a top 25 team in history. The previous best was a 22-point victory margin on two occasions. Clemson defeated a fourth-ranked NC State team led by David Thompson at Clemson 92–70 on Feb. 22, 1975 at Clemson, and defeated a 13th ranked Maryland team by 22 points, 93–71 on January 19, 1977 at Clemson.

The defeat was also the worst suffered by Duke since the NCAA Championship game of 1990, a 103–73 victory by UNLV on April 2, 1990. The 27-point margin was the largest for Duke in an ACC regular season game since January 18, 1984 when Wake Forest defeated Duke at Winston-Salem, 97–66.[5]

Clemson's 10-point win over Boston College in Boston on Feb. 10 was just the third ACC road win over an ACC team that finished the year with a winning record in the last 22 years. Boston College finished the ACC regular season with a 9–7 record and went to the NCAA tournament.

On Tuesday, February 17, the EA Sports Tour visited Littlejohn Coliseum as Clemson hosted Maryland. Along with judging the game day atmosphere, the tour handed out video games, t-shirts and hosted an NCAA Basketball 09 tournament leading up to the game. After their visit, Novell Thomas, the producer of the NCAA Basketball game, wrote that "Hands down, Clemson just set the bar for all hosts of the EA SPORTS Toughest Places to Play, tour."[6] The 29-point victory was the largest margin of victory in Clemson history over Maryland, and tied for the largest margin of victory for a Clemson team against an ACC team that advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Clemson defeated Florida State in 1997–98 by 29 points.

The Tigers finished the season at 9–7, which gave them back-to-back winning seasons in the conference for the first time since the 1965–66 and 1966–67 teams did it. It is also Clemson's eleventh winning season in the conference since 1953.[7]

Clemson defeated five NCAA tournament teams during the regular season in Duke, Maryland, Boston College, Temple and Illinois. It is the most wins over NCAA Tournament teams in the regular season for the Clemson program since 1997–98.

Clemson finished the regular season with a 14–0 record against non-conference teams, one of just eight Division I teams with a perfect non-conference record. The others were Pittsburgh, UConn, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Minnesota, Illinois State and Stanford.

The Tigers won seven regular season ACC games by double digits, the most regular season league wins by 10 points or more in Clemson history. Statistically, Clemson finished the year with a +10.3 average margin of victory, third best in school history. Clemson's .688 free throw percentage was the third best for the program in the last 22 years. Clemson's .374 three-point percentage was the fourth best in school history.

Postseason

ACC Tournament

Clemson entered the ACC Tournament as the No. 5 seed with a 9–7 record in the ACC Regular Season. The Tigers lost their opening game to No. 12 seed Georgia Tech 86–81 dropping their record to 3–8 all-time in the opening round of the tournament.

NCAA Tournament

Clemson was selected for the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year, joining Duke and North Carolina as the only ACC schools to make the tournament each of the last two years. It was just the third time in Clemson history that Clemson has gone to the NCAAs in consecutive years.[8] The Tigers opened the tournament in Kansas City, Missouri as a the No. 7 seed in the South Region. Down by double-digits against #10-seed Michigan in the first round, the Tigers went on a 14–0 run to make it 58–57 with just over a minute left. Clemson had a chance to tie the game with 13 seconds left, but K.C. Rivers' contested 3-pointer at the buzzer fell short. The 59–62 loss dropped Oliver Purnell to 0–5 all-time in NCAA Tournament games as a head coach.[9]

Roster

Coaches & staff

Position Name Year at CU Experience Alma Mater Hometown
Head Coach Oliver Purnell
6th
31
 Old Dominion ('75) Berlin, Maryland, United States
Associate Head Coach Ron Bradley
6th
31
 Eastern Nazarene ('74) Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Assistant Head Coach Frank Smith
6th
19
 Old Dominion ('88) Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Assistant Coach Josh Postorino
2nd
8
 Dayton ('99) Clearwater, Florida, United States
Director of Operations Michael Morrell
1st
1
 Milligan College ('05)
Video Services Andy Farrell
1st
0
 Dayton ('07) Richmond, Virginia, United States
Graduate Assistant Adam Gordon
1st
0
 Tampa ('06) Ocala, Florida, United States

Players

No. Name Ht. Wt. Position Year Hometown
03 Anderson, Zavier 5' 09" 160 PG SO Greenville, South Carolina, United States
10 Baciu, Catalin 7' 02" 230 C FR Cluj-Napoca, Romania
04 Baize, Jonah 6' 06" 205 F SO Evansville, Indiana, United States
35 Booker, Trevor 6' 07" 240 F JR Whitmire, South Carolina, United States
45 Grant, Jerai 6' 08" 220 F SO Bowie, Maryland, United States
21 Narcisse, Brian 6' 06" 200 F FR North Augusta, South Carolina, United States
22 Oglesby, Terrence 6' 02" 190 G SO Kongsberg, Norway, United States
55 Petrukonis, Karolis 6' 11" 260 C JR Trakai, Lithuania
15 Potter, David 6' 06" 205 F JR Severn, Maryland, United States
01 Rivers, K.C. 6' 02" 215 G SR Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
05 Smith, Tanner 6' 05" 205 SG FR Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
02 Stitt, Demontez 6' 02" 150 PG SO Matthews, North Carolina, United States
12 Sykes, Raymond 6' 09" 220 F SR Jacksonville, Florida, United States
44 Yanutola, Jesse 6' 04" 215 F SR Tega Cay, South Carolina, United States
11 Young, Andre 5' 09" 160 PG FR Albany, Georgia, United States

2009 commitments

Name Hometown High school / college Height Weight Commit date
Devin Booker
C		 Union, SC Union (SC) 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) 220 lb (100 kg) Mar 25,
2007 
Scout:   Rivals:   ESPN grade: 89
Donte Hill
G		 Virginia Beach, VA Norfolk Collegiate School (VA) 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) 200 lb (91 kg) Aug 09,
2008 
Scout:   Rivals:   ESPN grade: 85
Milton Jennings
PF		 Summerville, SC Pinewood Prep (SC) 6 ft 9 in (206 cm) 200 lb (91 kg) Apr 09,
2008 
Scout:   Rivals:   ESPN grade: 95
Noel Johnson
SG		 Fayetteville, GA Fayette County High School (GA) 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) 180 lb (82 kg) Jun 19,
2009 
Scout:   Rivals:   ESPN grade: 95
Overall recruiting rankings: Scout: 22
Note: In many cases, Scout and Rivals may conflict in their listings of height and weight.
In these cases, an average of the two was taken. ESPN grades are on a 100-point scale.
Sources:

Schedule and results

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance Record
Thur, Nov. 6* 7:30 pm USC Aiken #431 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC
(Exhibition)		 W 94–60  3,000
Regular season
Fri, Nov. 14* 9:30 pm vs. Hofstra #43 Carolina First Arena • Charleston, SC
(Charleston Classic • Game 4)		 CSS W 98–69  4,582 1–0
Sat, Nov. 15* 8:19 pm vs. TCU #43 Carolina First Arena • Charleston, SC
(Charleston Classic • Game 8)		 CSS W 70–58  1,571 2–0
Sun, Nov. 16* 4:00 pm vs. Temple #43 Carolina First Arena • Charleston, SC
(Charleston Classic • Game 11)		 CSS W 76–72  3,026 3–0
Wed, Nov. 19* 7:30 pm Wofford #39 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC ACC Select W 93–40  7,509 4–0
Sat, Nov. 22* 7:00 pm at Charlotte #39 Halton Arena • Charlotte, NC CBS All-Access W 71–70  9,105 5–0
Tue, Nov. 25* 8:00 pm Savannah State #39 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC W 81–49  6,595 6–0
Fri, Nov. 28* 7:30 pm Presbyterian #39 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC ACC Select W 79–58  9,238 7–0
Tue, Dec. 2* 7:30 pm at #32 Illinois #34 Assembly Hall • Champaign, IL
(ACC–Big Ten Challenge)		 ESPN2 W 76–74  14,741 8–0
Sun, Dec. 7* 3:00 pm Liberty #34 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC ACC Select W 80–75  6,657 9–0
Sat, Dec. 13* 2:00 pm SC State #30 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC ACC Select W 90–63  5,927 10–0
Tue, Dec. 16* 7:00 pm North Florida #25 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC ACC Select W 76–36  5,892 11–0
Sun, Dec. 21 7:45 pm at #27 Miami (FL) #25 BankUnited Center • Coral Gables, FL FSN W 91–72  4,755 12–0 (1–0)
Tue, Dec. 30* 7:00 pm at South Carolina #16 Colonial Life Arena • Columbia, SC
(Carolina-Clemson Rivalry)		 FSN W 98–87  16,168 13–0
Sat, Jan. 3* 4:00 pm East Carolina #16 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC ACC Select W 79–66  8,223 14–0
Tue, Jan. 6* 9:00 pm Alabama #11 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC FSN W 66–59  10,000 15–0
Sat, Jan. 10 Noon NC State #11 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC Raycom W 63–51  10,000 16–0 (2–0)
Sat, Jan. 17 3:30 pm #3 Wake Forest #9 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC ABC L 68–78  10,000 16–1 (2–1)
Wed, Jan. 21 9:00 pm at #6 North Carolina #9 Dean Smith Center • Chapel Hill, NC ESPN L 70–94  21,750 16–2 (2–2)
Sun, Jan. 25 7:45 pm Georgia Tech #9 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC FSN W 73–59  8,000 17–2 (3–2)
Thur, Jan. 29 7:00 pm at #39 Virginia Tech #11 Cassell Coliseum • Blacksburg, VA ESPN2 W 86–82  9,847 18–2 (4–2)
Wed, Feb. 4 9:00 pm #3 Duke #10 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC ESPN W 74–47  10,000 19–2 (5–2)
Sat, Feb. 7 7:00 pm Florida State #10 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC Raycom L 61–64  10,000 19–3 (5–3)
Tue, Feb. 10 9:00 pm at Boston College #11 Conte Forum • Chestnut Hill, MA FSN W 87–77  6,126 20–3 (6–3)
Sun, Feb. 15 1:00 pm at Virginia #11 John Paul Jones Arena • Charlottesville, VA Raycom L 81–85 OT 10,971 20–4 (6–4)
Tue, Feb. 17 7:30 pm Maryland #13 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC ESPN2 W 93–64  9,700 21–4 (7–4)
Sun, Feb. 22 1:00 pm at Georgia Tech #13 Alexander Memorial Coliseum • Atlanta, GA Raycom W 81–73  8,339 22–4 (8–4)
Wed, Feb. 25 7:30 pm Virginia Tech #13 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC ESPN2 L 77–80  9,728 22–5 (8–5)
Sat, Feb. 28 2:00 pm at #25 Florida State #13 Donald L. Tucker Center • Tallahassee, FL Raycom L 66–73  12,100 22–6 (8–6)
Tue, Mar. 3 7:00 pm Virginia #19 Littlejohn Coliseum • Clemson, SC
(Senior Night)		 Raycom W 75–57  8,150 23–6 (9–6)
Sun, Mar. 8 6:00 pm at #10 Wake Forest #19 LJVM Coliseum • Winston-Salem, NC FSN L 88–96  14,665 23–7 (9–7)
Postseason
Thur, Mar. 12 2:00 pm vs. Georgia Tech #18 Georgia Dome • Atlanta, GA
(ACC Tournament • First Round)		 Raycom L 81–86  26,352 23–8
Thur, Mar. 19* 7:10 pm vs. Michigan #21 Sprint Center • Kansas City, MO
(NCAA Tournament • First Round)		 CBS L 59–62  17,398 23–9
*Non-Conference Game. #Rankings from ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

1 – Note that rankings above 25 are not official rankings. They are representations of ranking based on the number of points received in the weekly poll.

Player statistics

Finals Stats[10]

# Name GP GS Min FG% 3PT% FT% R/G A/G STL BLK PTS/G
35 Booker, Trevor 32 32 30.7 .571 .409 .707 9.7 1.7 47 63 15.3
01 Rivers, K.C. 32 32 31.0 .449 .392 .667 6.0 1.6 55 14 14.2
22 Oglesby, Terrence 32 31 25.8 .375 .388 .845 1.7 1.8 28 1 13.2
02 Stitt, Demontez 32 32 25.9 .413 .273 .673 2.4 3.8 48 14 8.7
12 Sykes, Raymond 32 31 21.7 .578 .000 .557 5.1 0.7 20 32 7.9
15 Potter, David 32 0 17.6 .380 .365 .756 2.2 1.3 19 7 4.9
45 Grant, Jerai 32 1 14.6 .644 .000 .647 3.2 0.5 12 45 4.7
11 Young, Andre 32 0 14.9 .377 .390 .632 0.8 2.1 31 1 4.4
05 Smith, Tanner 32 0 13.2 .448 .357 .667 1.8 1.1 29 6 3.6
10 Baciu, Catalin 9 0 4.9 .400 .000 .400 2.1 0.4 3 2 2.0
21 Narcisse, Bryan 16 0 4.2 .533 .000 .667 0.8 0.3 2 1 1.5
44 Yanutola, Jesse 7 1 2.0 .200 .000 .500 1.1 0.3 2 0 0.4
55 Petrukonis, Karolis 6 0 4.5 .200 .000 .000 1.0 0.5 1 0 0.3
03 Anderson, Zavier 7 0 1.6 .500 .000 .000 0.4 0.0 1 1 0.3
04 Baize, Jonah 4 0 1.8 .000 .000 .000 0.3 0.3 0 0 0.0
Clemson Totals .463 .374 .688 37.2 14.9 298 187 78.3
Opponent Totals .431 .359 .666 35.2 13.3 243 106 68.0

Awards and honors

Trevor Booker

K.C. Rivers

Tanner Smith

Oliver Purnell, Head Coach

Ron Bradley, Associate Head Coach

Rankings

See also: 2008–09 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings
Ranking Movement Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Final
USA Today/ESPN Coaches 431 39 39 34 30 25 20 16 11 9 9 11 10 11 13 13 19 18 21 26
Associated Press 431 32 31 29 27 25 22 20 12 10 10 12 10 12 13 12 18 17 24

1 – Note that rankings above 25 are not official rankings. They are representations of ranking based on the number of points received in the weekly poll.

Final season notes

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Team notes

Clemson finished the season with a 23–9 record for a .719 winning percentage. This marks the fifth consecutive year that Clemson has improved its winning percentage from the previous year. Head Coach Oliver Purnell joins former Georgia Tech coach Bobby Cremins as the only coaches in ACC history to take a program to a better winning percentage in five consecutive years. Cremins did it from 1980–81 through the 1986–87 season. The team finished the year with 23 wins, tied for the fifth highest total in school history. The .719 winning percentage ranks in a tie for fourth best in school history and the best since the 1989–90 team was 24–8 for a .750 winning percentage. The 23 victories gave Clemson at least 20 wins for the third straight year, a first in Clemson history. Clemson has 72 wins over the last three years, third among ACC teams behind North Carolina and Duke.

Clemson finished the year ranked 24th in the final Associated Press poll. It marks the second consecutive year Clemson has been ranked in the final AP poll, the first time in history Clemson has finished in the top 25 in any poll in consecutive years. Clemson was ranked in the AP poll for 14 consecutive weeks and in the USA Today poll for 13 consecutive weeks, the second longest streak of weeks in the top 25 in the same season in Clemson history and most since 1996–97 team was ranked in all 19 polls. Clemson reached a high ranking of No. 9 in the USA Today poll on Feb. 9, the highest ranking for the program since the 1997–98 season.

Clemson won 10 games away from home, including seven on the opponent's home court. The 10 wins away from home were the most since the 1996–97 team won a record 11. The seven road wins were the most since the 1986–87 team won eight on the opponent's home court. The Tigers posted a 4–4 ACC road record this year, the most ACC road wins in a season for the Clemson program since 1996–97.

Individual notes

Clemson's senior class of K.C. Rivers, Raymond Sykes and Jesse Yanutola finished their careers with 91 victories, a Clemson record for a four-year class. The previous record was 84. The class also had a record 33 ACC regular season wins and 12 ACC road wins. The .679 winning percentage is second best in Clemson history behind the seniors of 1979–80.

See also

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