MEMPHIS – As the Clemson men's basketball team walked off the court Sunday night in Memphis, head coach Brad Brownell stopped to salute the fans in attendance and then broke into a big smile and gave a fist pump that showed a break is his normally stoic demeanor.
It was a fist-pump kind of night in Memphis.
Clemson survived a late Baylor rally and held on for a gritty 72-64 victory, sending the Tigers to just the fifth Sweet 16 in school history. Clemson will travel to Los Angeles to take on Arizona on Thursday (7:09 EDT/CBS) for the chance to advance to just the second Elite Eight in school history.