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ACC Program Histories: Clemson Lady Tigers

We continue our historical overviews of various ACC teams. The team featured today is Clemson - the only team left in the ACC that still prefaces its mascot with the word "Lady", so the official name is not the Tigers but the Lady Tigers. More information follows.

A # is used in the Standing column to indicate seasons where the team won the conference tournament. As you can see, the Lady Tigers have won two conference tournaments, the last in 1999.

Mary King was women's basketball coach for one year. She then coached tennis at Clemson from 1976 to 1982.

Annie Tribble was named as one of the ACC's Legends of Women's Basketball in 2011.


After his retirement from Clemson, Jim Davis became an assistant AD/fundraiser, then an assistant coach with the Minnesota Lynx for two seasons, then in 2011 became an assistant coach at Young Harris College in Georgia.

Cristy McKinney is now an assistant coach at Elon.

Itoro Coleman was a former player at Clemson, better known as Itoro Umoh from 1995 through 1999. Jim Davis was her coach for all four years at Clemson.

Season Coach W L Conf W Conf L Standing Postseason
Mary King (1975-76) (AIAW)
1975-76 Mary King 14 11
Mary King 14 11
Annie Tribble (1976-87 ) (AIAW, ACC)
1976-77 Annie Tribble 22 9
1977-78 Annie Tribble 21 11 4 4 4th
1978-79 Annie Tribble 20 10 6 2 3rd
1979-80 Annie Tribble 24 12 6 3 3rd NWIT Seventh Place
1980-81 Annie Tribble 23 8 6 1 1st AIAW First Round
1981-82 Annie Tribble 20 12 6 3 4th NCAA First Round
1982-83 Annie Tribble 12 17 5 8 5th
1983-84 Annie Tribble 21 10 9 5 T-3rd NWIT Third Place
1984-85 Annie Tribble 18 9 8 6 4th
1985-86 Annie Tribble 12 16 4 10 T-6th
1986-87 Annie Tribble 7 21 3 11 T-7th
Annie Tribble 200 135 57 53
Jim Davis (1987- 2005 ) (ACC)
1987-88 Jim Davis 21 9 8 6 4th NCAA Second Round
1988-89 Jim Davis 20 11 9 5 3rd NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1989-90 Jim Davis 22 10 10 4 3rd NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1990-91 Jim Davis 22 11 8 6 4th NCAA Elite Eight
1991-92 Jim Davis 21 10 9 7 T-3rd NCAA Second Round
1992-93 Jim Davis 19 11 8 8 T-4th NCAA Second Round
1993-94 Jim Davis 20 10 11 5 3rd NCAA Second Round
1994-95 Jim Davis 21 11 9 7 5th NWIT Fifth Place
1995-96 Jim Davis 23 8 9 7 4th# NCAA Second Round
1996-97 Jim Davis 19 11 8 8 6th NCAA First Round
1997-98 Jim Davis 25 8 12 4 T-2nd NCAA Second Round
1998-99 Jim Davis 26 6 11 5 T-3rd# NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1999-2000 Jim Davis 19 12 9 7 4th NCAA Second Round
2000-01 Jim Davis 21 10 10 6 2nd NCAA Second Round
2001-02 Jim Davis 17 12 9 7 T-3rd NCAA First Round
2002-03 Jim Davis 14 15 5 11 7th
2003-04 Jim Davis 17 12 7 9 T-5th WNIT First Round
2004-05 Jim Davis 8 20 2 12 11th
Jim Davis 355 197 154 124
Cristy McKinney (2005-2010 ) (ACC)
2005-06 Cristy McKinney 8 21 2 12 T-11th
2006-07 Cristy McKinney 12 18 4 10 9th
2007-08 Cristy McKinney 12 19 4 10 9th
2008-09 Cristy McKinney 14 17 2 12 T-10th
2009-10 Cristy McKinney 13 18 4 10 T-10th
Cristy McKinney 59 93 16 54
Itoro Coleman (2011- ) (ACC)
2010-11 Itoro Coleman 10 20 3 11 11th
Itoro Coleman 10 20 3 11