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Last Updated: March 13, 2024, 00:01 IST
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Clemson fired ladies’s basketball coach Amanda Butler on Tuesday after six seasons and only one NCAA Tournament look.
CLEMSON, S.C.: Clemson fired ladies’s basketball coach Amanda Butler on Tuesday after six seasons and only one NCAA Tournament look.
Butler went 81-106 in her six seasons, together with 32-75 within the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tigers had been 12-19 and 5-13 within the ACC this 12 months.
Their lone NCAA look got here in Butler’s first season, in 2019. It was Clemson’s first March Madness look in 17 years and she or he was named ACC coach of the 12 months for the accomplishment.
But the workforce had only one extra profitable season underneath her, with Clemson going 19-16 in 2022-23.
Athletic director Graham Neff thanked Butler in a press release and mentioned the workforce would seek for a substitute who may lead the Tigers as ladies’s basketball continues to develop in reputation.
“We believe that we are resourced and supported in a way to make this one of the top teams in the nation every year,” he mentioned.
That might be a tall order given who leads rival South Carolina within the Palmetto State. Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley has constructed a powerhouse program only some hours south of Clemson’s campus and has received its previous 13 video games within the rivalry sequence.
Clemson has struggled in ladies’s basketball for greater than twenty years. The Tigers reached 13 NCAA Tournaments in 15 seasons underneath former coach Jim Davis from 1988-2002.
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