Brownell and staff busy on the virtual recruiting trail

Beadle (L) poses with Clemson's Reynolds Dean last September.The ongoing social distancing hasn’t kept head basketball coach Brad Brownell and his staff off of the virtual recruiting trail.

Brownell has dotted his roster with Columbia-area talent and last Friday he dropped an offer into the hands of 6-foot-3 point guard Joshua Beadle of Cardinal Newman. Clemson, with assistant coach Antonio Reynolds Dean logging the legwork, has been on Beadle’s trail for several months, so the offer came as no great surprise to him.

“They’ve been recruiting me for a while, and I’ve been to a few games,” Beadle said. “I went last year to the game they played Notre Dame and the game they played USC. And they…