By Will Vandervort.

The Greensboro Coliseum has not been too kind to Rod Hall.

In the 2014 ACC Tournament an apparent foul that was not called as Hall drove through the lane in the final seconds of Clemson’s quarterfinal game against Duke sent the Tigers home with a one-point loss. On Wednesday, in the 2015 ACC Tournament, the rim rejected No. 8 seeded Clemson’s efforts to move on in the tournament that has taunted the Tigers for 62 years.

Clemson is still the only charter member of the ACC not to win the ACC Basketball Tournament.

Trailing 75-73 against No. 9 seed Florida State, Hall drove the lane and put up a jumper with 11 seconds left. At first it looked as if the shot was going to go in, but instead it hung on the rim and then fell the other way and into the hands of the Seminoles’ Phil Cofer with 9. 5 seconds to play.

“It was very tough. It just rolled the opposite way,” Hall said afterwards. “It was on the rim and it rolled the opposite way. There is nothing I can do about it. I thought it was a pretty good shot, but it did not go in.”

Gabe DeVoe’s attempt to tie the game with a three-pointer with two seconds left bounced off the iron after Cofer made just one of two free throws as FSU survived a furious Clemson rally in the last 79 seconds for a 76-73 victory.

The Seminoles, who led by 20 points with 9:09 to play, will play top-seed Virginia in the quarterfinal round beginning at noon today.

“We had two chances to tie,” Clemson head coach Brad Brownell said. “Rod has one that is lying on the rim. That could have very easily fallen in. Unfortunately, it fell the other way.”

It fell just like the Tigers’ season. It gave them a little hope and then it fell off just when it appeared everything was going to be okay.

After a couple of unforgivable losses to Winthrop and Gardner-Webb to open the season, Clemson rallied and put itself in position to make a postseason run at the NCAA Tournament when it won four straight ACC games in January and was 14-8 overall.

But the harsh reality of not having a consistent offensive threat caught up with the Tigers as they closed the year losing seven of their last nine games, including three straight. Much like their second-round ACC Tournament game against FSU, Clemson rallied from a horrible spot, recovered and then lost it just when it and its fans started to have hope.

“It was difficult, but as you know, basketball is up and down,” said Hall, who scored a career-high 25 points in the loss to the Seminoles. “You just have to stick with it and do the best you can. Some nights just were not our night and it seemed like, I don’t know, we were a half-step slow.”

That half-step now has the Tigers (16-15) on the outside looking in when comes to postseason play. Clemson entered the ACC Tournament on the bubble of receiving an invitation to the NIT for a second straight year, but given the way the season has come to a close, it isn’t likely the Tigers will be given an opportunity to go to New York this year.

And if that is the case, then it more than likely means the careers of seniors Demarcus Harrison and Hall came to a crashing halt in the same arena that has ended hundreds of other Clemson basketball careers.

“Of course, I want to compete. I just want to end my career the right way,” Hall said. “If it is today, it is kind of hard to deal with this, but if we get to keep playing then I’m going to do my best to help my teammates.”