MEMPHIS – Basketball can be a cruel game   Sunday in Memphis the basketball gods were good to the Tigers and they find themselves back in the Sweet 16.

Clemson head coach Brad Brownell knows sometimes they shine on you and sometimes they don’t.

“We’ve had three or four one-point losses Jack Clark against Virginia that far if it hits the back of the iron,” said Brownell his his postgame press conference.  “D.J. horn made a late one against us and Chase gets blocked at the rim where he’s at the buzzer. A tip-in where both my guys are tipping it.  We’ve had our share go the other way. Today things worked for us. And sometimes that’s why basketball can be a cruel game. It’s hard.”

Nobody is happier for Clemson basketball than Dabo Swinney and his staff.  However, Swinney wouldn’t want to change positions with Brownell according to the two time Sweet 16 hear coach.

“I’ve got a lot of friends on the football staff at Clemson. And very few of them want to change positions with me. One of them’s wife, early on, lives across the street, my wife was walking to get the mail. She’s like, there’s no way, I could never be married to a basketball coach. The games are stressful. Every game comes down to the last two minutes, and the coach said, yeah, you guys have to inbound the ball like 50 times in a basketball game and people don’t realize how hard that is with the athletes on the floor. Basketball is going to have ups and downs and quick turns, and you’ve got to be strong to survive it,” said Brownell.