Sport: | Women's Basketball |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Team: | Clemson Tigers |
Conference: | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Short Conf: | ACC |
Record: | 12–19 |
Conf Record: | 5–13 |
Head Coach: | Amanda Butler |
Hc Year: | 6th |
Asst Coach1: | Joy Smith |
Ac1 Year: | 6th |
Asst Coach2: | Daniel Barber |
Ac2 Year: | 6th |
Asst Coach3: | Darrick Gibbs |
Ac3 Year: | 2st |
Stadium: | Littlejohn Coliseum |
The 2023–24 Clemson Tigers women's basketball team represented Clemson University during the 2023–24 college basketball season. The Tigers were led by sixth year head coach Amanda Butler. The Tigers, members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, played their home games at Littlejohn Coliseum.
Clemson started the season with three straight wins, but ended their streak with a loss to rival South Carolina. They won their next game before only winning one of three games at their early season tournament, the Van Chancellor Classic. They lost to Auburn in the ACC–SEC Challenge before having an early season ACC game. They upset Duke in that December ACC game. In their remaining non-conference games, the Tigers won two and lost one. They had a final non-conference record of 7–5, with two of those five losses coming to ranked teams. They lost their next seven ACC regular season games, with five of those losses coming to teams ranked at the time, and one to Syracuse, who became ranked the week after facing Clemson. The Tigers won their next three games. However, they could not keep the streak going, losing to Miami in overtime and to Georgia Tech by just one point. Their losing streak continued to five games before they defeated Wake Forest in the penultimate game of the season. In the final game of the season, they took Florida State to overtime, but could not prevail in the extra period.
The Tigers finished the season 13–18 overall and 5–13 in ACC play to finish in a tie for twevlth place. As the twelfth seed in the ACC tournament, they lost to Boston College in the First Round. They were not invited to the NCAA tournament or the WBIT. After the season Clemson parted ways with head coach Amanda Butler.[1]
The Tigers finished the season 19–16 and 7–11 in ACC play to finish in tenth place. As the tenth seed in the ACC tournament, they defeated fifteenth seed Pittsburgh in the First Round before losing to seventh seed North Carolina in the Second Round. They received an at-large invitation to the WNIT. The Tigers defeated in the First Round and Auburn in the Second Round before losing to Florida in the Super 16 to end their season.
Departures | |||||||
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Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Year | Hometown | Reason for Departure | |
Brie Perpignan | 0 | G | 5'8" | Graduate Student | Graduated | ||
Taylor Thompson | 1 | G | 5'7" | Junior | — | ||
Daisha Bradford | 2 | G | 5'8" | Senior | Transferred to Louisiana-Monroe[2] | ||
Weronika Hipp | 4 | G | 5'8" | Junior | Medically Retired | ||
Tadassa Brown | 11 | F | 6'3" | Freshman | Transferred to Texas Southern[3] | ||
Hannah Hank | 12 | F | 6'2" | Senior | Graduated | ||
Kionna Gaines | 15 | G | 5'9" | Sophomore | Transferred to Auburn[4] | ||
Ale'jah Douglas | 24 | G | 5'6" | Junior | Transferred to Oklahoma State[5] | ||
Sydney Standifer | 25 | G | 5'7" | Sophomore | Medically Retired |
Incoming Transfers | |||||||
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Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Year | Hometown | Previous School | |
Mackenzie Kramer | 0 | G | 5'9" | Senior | Lehigh[6] | ||
Dayshanette Harris | 1 | G | 5'7" | Graduate Student | Pittsburgh[7] | ||
Nya Valentine | 2 | G | 5'3" | Junior | Shelton State Community College[8] | ||
Maddi Cluse | 11 | G | 5'10" | Junior | Miami (OH) | ||
Danna Grenald | 23 | F | 6'2" | Junior | New Mexico Junior College[9] | ||
Danielle Rauch | 33 | G | 5'8" | Graduate Student | Michigan[10] | ||
Amani Freeman | 34 | F | 6'2" | Graduate Student | Miami (OH) |
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Source:[13] |- !colspan=9 style=""| Regular Season|-!colspan=9 style=""| ACC Women's Tournament
See main article: 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings.
+ Regular Season Polls | Poll | Pre- Season | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Final |
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AP | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Coaches | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR |
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Decrease in ranking | |||
Not ranked previous week | |||
(RV) | Received Votes | ||
(NR) | Not ranked |
Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG | |
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Amari Robinson | 31 | 31 | 30.9 | 53.0% | 35.4% | 79.1% | 6.6 | 1.4 | 17.3 | |
Dayshanette Harris | 31 | 31 | 26.7 | 43.6% | 32.9% | 71.5% | 3.7 | 5.0 | 14.2 | |
Ruby Whitehorn | 31 | 29 | 28.7 | 46.4% | 27.5% | 69.2% | 5.6 | 1.6 | 12.3 | |
Mackenzie Kramer | 23 | 10 | 23.9 | 40.3% | 36.4% | 92.3% | 1.5 | 1.0 | 8.3 | |
Maddi Cluse | 13 | 13 | 22.6 | 43.5% | 33.3% | 47.2% | 4.2 | 1.2 | 7.5 | |
MaKayla Elmore | 31 | 28 | 25.6 | 37.2% | 31.9% | 57.1% | 5.6 | 1.3 | 4.3 | |
Eno Inyang | 28 | 3 | 13.8 | 35.6% | — | 78.9% | 2.2 | 0.3 | 2.8 | |
Nya Valentine | 31 | 0 | 12.3 | 32.2% | 34.2% | 80.0% | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.8 | |
Amani Freenman | 29 | 0 | 10.2 | 56.9% | — | 59.4% | 1.6 | 0.5 | 2.7 | |
Danielle Rauch | 23 | 2 | 16.4 | 27.1% | 26.7% | 80.0% | 1.7 | 1.5 | 2.7 | |
Madi Ott | 30 | 8 | 16.6 | 26.7% | 27.0% | 60.0% | 1.7 | 1.1 | 2.4 | |
Bella Ranallo | 7 | 0 | 1.2 | 25.0% | 33.3% | — | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
Kylee Kellermann | 7 | 0 | 1.2 | 0.0% | 0.0% | — | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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