CLEMSON — With the NCAA Tournament rapidly approaching, the end of the college basketball season is near.

That means portal madness and budgeting for next year’s team at Clemson. Brad Brownell and Athletic Director Graham Neff have already started having conversations about what that’s going to look like.

“We are starting to have those conversations, Grahman and I,” Brownell said during the weekly ACC Coaches Zoom call. “We have not gotten all the way through what it is all going to look like. That will happen, I would assume, here shortly.”

With several key contributors, including RJ Godfrey, Blake Davidson, Dillon Hunter and Jestin Porter exhausting eligibility this season, the Tigers are once again going to need to be active in the portal.

“There is no question we are going to have to add some portal players,” Brownell said. “We are losing a good number of seniors and we signed a couple of good high school players we really like, but we are going need some older, experienced guys to help contribute to what will be a young team next year.”

With Clemson being a football school and Dabo Swinney’s program commanding an overwhelming majority of the revenue share money, Brownell will likely have less rev-share money to work with when compared toi many of his ACC counterparts.

While Brownell will likely have some ideas on how to get more money for the basketball program, that decision ultimately lies with Neff. However, Clemson’s all-time winningest basketball coach knows he has Neff’s full support.

“Well, he is my boss, so I make suggestions,” Brownell added jokingly.

“Graham will do whatever he thinks is in the best interest of the university and what he can to be supportive of men’s basketball.”

The Tigers are currently in the hunt for one of the top four seeds in the ACC Tournament that will begin next week in Charlotte. Sitting at 21-8 overall and 11-5 in league play, Brownell’s team is almost assuredly a lock for a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive season.

“We have been very competitive here recently, and I don’t think we want to go backwards,” Brownell added. “But there are going to be challenges for sure. Because this is Clemson and football is a big part of what this university is about. That is just the way it is. You understand that when you are the basketball coach.”