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CLEMSON, S.C. -- It has been a long time since any Clemson basketball team made the NCAA Tournament.Head coaches Brad Brownell and Audra Smith are looking to change that as quickly as possible -- and hope a $63.5 million renovation at Littlejohn Coliseum can help.The mens team has not made NCAAs since 2011, Brownells first season and the end of a run of four straight trips to the Big Dance. Its been even longer for Smiths womens team, which had not gotten a bid since 2002 -- three coaches ago.Brownell spent much of his previous six years meeting donors about the basketball project and building a base of support to fill up Liittlejohns increased premium seating areas when it officially opens Nov. 11 as the Tigers face Georgia.Brownell said hes built a respectable, competitive program and wont worry about those on the outside who think a shiny new building brings instant success.A better office, nicer TVs and couches, doesnt win you any games, said Brownell, starting his seventh Clemson season. Now, hopefully, it brings guys together in an environment where you can spent more time together, bond better and become closer, that togetherness helps you win games.Brownell and Smith each acknowledge what the facility can mean to their future programs in attracting top talent.Smith said last week she had several prospects on campus whose eyes widened at the modern, expanded weight rooms and additional practice courts. Brownell is glad for the chance to show off a finished product to high school coaches, players and their families instead of planning sketches.Its the owner of the Taj Mahal, one supporter said to Brownell as they shook hands Wednesday.Athletic director Dan Radakovich made the aging Littlejohn one of his first priorities when he took the job four years ago. He thought a modern facility would boost Clemsons basketball programs the way updating and expanding football facilities -- an initiative begun more than a decade ago -- has Clemson fighting for a second-straight trip to the College Football Playoff.Brownell knows it will take time to see benefits, especially with the Tigers having to recruit against ACC powers like Duke, North Carolina and Louisville.You go to ACC media days there are probably 14 out of 15 teams saying theyre going to the NCAAs, the coach said.Clemson has gone 10-8 in the Atlantic Coast Conference in two of the past three years and last season had a three-game run like few others in program history, defeating ranked league opponents Louisville, Duke and Miami over a weeks span.Just because we havent made the NCAA Tournament, and were all disappointed with that, look at ACC play over the last three years especially, weve been a pretty good team. I think we have a lot more respect in our league than sometimes were given credit for.Smith has struggled in rebuilding Clemsons once powerful womens basketball team, going from 13 wins her first season to nine in 2014-15 and four last winter. Its a frustrating process she hopes is about to trend upward in a fresh building.All the amenities in place for our kids to be successful is something that will definitely help us as the season goes on, she said.---Online: www.collegebasketball.ap.org Ua Hovr Online . Defenceman Yannick Weber scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and the Canucks breathed a sigh of relief with a 2-1 win on Saturday night. Curry 3 Outlet . 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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Demontrez Austin scored a career-high 16 points and Devin Harris also scored 16, his eighth-straight game in double figures, as Jacksonville rallied past NAIA Florida Memorial 81-63 on Monday night.Tanner Rubio added 13 points for Jacksonville (9-4), the freshmans first game in double figures.After trailing by six at halftime, the Dolphins battled back to tie at 39 on an Austin dunk. After Florida Memorial went ahead again, 47-42, on back-to-back 3-pointers from Kody Williams and Charlie Nedd-Araujo, Jackssonville found its groove, going on a 20-3 run over the next six minutes.ddddddddddddAustin had another dunk to punctuate the run -- he finished with 7-for-9 shooting and seven rebounds -- and Darius Dawkins added three 3-pointers to finish with nine points.Nedd-Araujo led the Lions with 27 points. Florida Memorial had won its five previous games and was ranked (22nd) for the first time in NAIA D-II. ' ' '