CHARLOTTE – The Clemson Women’s basketball team brought two representatives –- and almost a decade of combined collegiate basketball experience –- to the ACC Tipoff at the Charlotte Hilton Uptown on Tuesday.
Those representatives, senior guard Mia Moore, now in her second year with the Tigers, and graduate power forward Demeara Hinds, in her first season at Clemson, have played a collective nine years of college basketball. While both players started their careers at different Power Four programs, Moore had a relationship with Clemson head coach Shawn Poppie for seven years before she arrived on campus.
“Coach Poppie, he’s been recruiting me since high school, probably like ninth grade,” Moore, an Alpharetta, Ga.