CLEMSON – Marcquise Reed scored a team-high 18 points and gathered in a career-high 13 rebounds as No. 22 Clemson opened the season with a 100-80 victory over The Citadel in Littlejohn Coliseum Tuesday evening.
David Skara scored eight points in the final four minutes as part of an 11-point night. Shelton Mitchell and Aamir Simms each scored 16 for the Tigers. Elijah Thomas had nine rebounds in his return from an ankle injury. Clyde Trapp scored a career-high 13 points.
The Tigers had never scored more than 95 points under Brownell, and the 100 points are the most since scoring 102 in Oliver Purnell’s last season.