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As it turns out, his team’s 69-67 loss to McNeese State in the first round of the 2025 men’s NCAA Tournament wasn’t the last time Ian Schieffelin would put on a Clemson uniform.
It just won’t be for the school’s men’s basketball team.
Schieffelin, a burly senior forward who was a second-team All-ACC honoree last season, will be joining the Tigers’ football team for the 2025 season, he announced Friday.
“Excited For The Next Chapter! Go Tigers!!” Schieffelin wrote in a post on social media.
The 6-foot-8, 240-pound Schieffelin is listed on the team’s official roster as a tight end.
Schieffelin averaged a career-high 12.4 points and 9.4 rebounds per game last season for a Clemson team that won a program-record 27 games and earned a No. 5 seed to the NCAA Tournament. Despite being a senior, he entered the transfer portal last month, hoping he could earn an extra year of eligibility as the NCAA faces lawsuits over the eligibility timelines of college athletes.
Eventually, his eyes turned to a different sport.
As Schieffelin emerged as a standout for the Tigers’ basketball team, Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney had publicly praised his potential as a football player, believing he could be a fit at tight end, offensive tackle or defensive end.
“He’d play wherever he’d want to play,” Swinney said in October 2024. “… I’ll definitely have a spot.”
What was initially viewed as a joke…
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