When the 2025-26 All-ACC Men’s Basketball Team was announced this past Monday, the only Clemson player to make it in some capacity was senior forward RJ Godfrey, as an All-ACC Honorable Mention.

However, the Tigers have enjoyed plenty of success this season despite the absence of a single player who earned All-ACC First Team, Second Team or Third Team honors. With a 24-10 record and multiple wins over Quad 1 teams, Clemson is a lock to make the NCAA Tournament for the third straight year — it is just a matter of where the team is seeded and where it will play in the first round.

The fifth-seeded Tigers made the semifinals of the ACC Tournament for the second year in a row, falling to top-seeded Duke, 73-61, at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday night. Before that, Clemson beat Wake Forest and North Carolina in this year’s ACC Tourney. The win was only Clemson’s second against North Carolina in the ACC Tournament and marked just the third time that Clemson won two or more games in the tournament in school history.

As Clemson waits to hear its NCAA Tournament seeding during the selection show on Sunday, head coach Brad Brownell spoke about his team and what the Tigers have accomplished so far during the 2025-26 campaign.

“It reminds you that team can be sum of greater parts. This is a true team,” Brownell said following Friday’s loss to Duke. “We’ve had the motto, ‘Everybody all the time,’ and it’s kind of taken that for us. We’ve talked about it in June and July. We didn’t think we had anybody that was maybe going to be an all-conference player.

“But we have a lot of good players, and we have competitive guys and we have guys that are coachable and we have guys that care and we have guys that have tremendous character and care about each other, and we’ve built that.”

Clemson will watch the 2026 NCAA Tournament Selection Show at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Mathis Family Coliseum Club inside Littlejohn Coliseum in Clemson.

In his updated bracketology, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has Clemson as a No. 8 seed (down from a No. 7 seed) after the loss to Duke.

Brownell is certainly pleased with Clemson’s ACC Tournament run and the season as a whole to this point, when — in his words — “a lot of people did not think we were going to be very good.”

Brownell says the 2025-26 Tigers are proof that a “true team” is still possible in this era of NIL and the transfer portal.

“In this climate right now, this is still possible,” he said. “The value that you get by having those kinds of kids can surprise some people in terms of success on the court. It doesn’t surprise me because it’s what we’ve always tried to do at Clemson.

“It just reminds us all, even though there’s a lot of things we don’t like about what’s going on in college athletics, you can still do things the right way and be successful.”