Poppie saw a 3-point attempt rim out by sharpshooter Hannah Kohn with under 30 seconds to go to take the lead. Despite a second chance with 8 seconds to go, an inbound pass was tipped by a Tar Heel defender to end the hope.<\/p>\n
However, after that game, it wasn\u2019t the game that stood out to Clemson fans: it was the jacket. Poppie received so many compliments about the sports coat that he decided to keep a good thing going.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought, maybe I should bring a jacket back, and so that\u2019s where the jacket started,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Then, winning began.<\/p>\n
Poppie wore another suit in the next game, this time, a blue one. The game ended in a 68-61 victory over No. 19 Georgia Tech at home, being Clemson\u2019s second ranked win of his tenure in just his debut season.<\/p>\n
In the Tigers\u2019 first ACC Tournament game that season, they picked up an upset win against Stanford for the program\u2019s first postseason win under Poppie. Once again, he donned a suit.<\/p>\n
However, when he was being styled for the original orange jacket, there was a part that he didn\u2019t wear that the M.H. Frank staff believed would add more to the style.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Well, you should try on this hoodie with it,\u2019\u201d Poppie recalled. \u201cSo I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
The third-year head coach does it because \u201cwhether you like it or not, it starts conversation.\u201d He also gets some help from his wife, Regina, saying that she enjoys the style, depending on which sports coat and hoodie he decides to match it with for that given game.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe hasn\u2019t told me no quite yet, but she\u2019s definitely said, \u2018Let\u2019s try a new one,\u2019\u201d Poppie said.<\/p>\n
Now, he even has a navy sports jacket stitched with a hood on it. Poppie flashed it in Clemson\u2019s ACC Tournament quarterfinal game against top-seeded Duke this past March.<\/p>\n
The mixture of sports coats and hoodies has become as much a part of Poppie\u2019s identity as the program he\u2019s building.<\/p>\n
Since that February day, the Tigers have been winning games, and the program is bringing in money to compete with the rest of the ACC, as well as the country. Clemson is showing on the court, too, with a 21-12 record that saw it make its first NCAA Tournament appearance in seven seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poppie saw a 3-point attempt rim out by sharpshooter Hannah Kohn with under 30 seconds to go to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,362847,362848,85],"class_list":["post-759217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-clemson-basketball-team","tag-clemson-women","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}