The Clemson Tigers women’s basketball team recently announced the signing of forward Kinsley Barrington.

The signing is the latest addition to the staff by first-year coach Shawn Poppie, who replaced Amanda Butler in the offseason.

Barrington, 6-foot-3, has four years of college experience in the WAC — two years at Southern Utah and two years at Cal Baptist. As a graduate transfer, the Vineyard, Utah native has one season of eligibility remaining.

His final season with Cal Baptist was the best of his career, averaging 11 points, 5.0 points and 1.9 assists per game on 44 percent shooting. He helped the Lancers win both the WAC regular season and tournament titles and earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament.

In the Lancers’ only NCAA game, they lost to UCLA, in which Barrington scored 18 points, had three rebounds, three steals and one assist.

Clemson is getting a player who can make an immediate impact on their rotation. Poppie said in the press release announcing the signing that Barrington is the “final piece of the puzzle.”

“He checked all the boxes as a true forward who plays with toughness,” he said. “He has the ability to shoot threes, post up against mismatches and play with great tenacity.”

Clemson now has 17 players on its roster for next season. Poppie has assembled a roster that includes nine transfers signed by Barrington, three of whom followed Poppie from Chattanooga, his last head coaching stop. He also managed to convince two players from last year’s Tigers to withdraw from the transfer portal after Butler was fired.

Poppie is making his second head coaching stop. The former Virginia Tech assistant, who worked under Kenny Brooks (now at Kentucky), took over the Mocs for the 2022-23 season and quickly turned them into a winner.

He led Chattanooga to two Southern Conference Tournament titles and two NCAA Tournament appearances before being hired to replace Butler.

Clemson terminated Butler’s contract after he went 81–106 in his six seasons at the helm. In his first season in 2018–19, he led the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament with a 20–13 record and won their first round game.

But Clemson never came back. The Tigers made it to the WNIT twice but never returned to March Madness.

The program was a regular NCAA Tournament participant under Jim Davis, who took over the program in 1987–88, and had 14 NCAA Tournament appearances in 18 seasons, including four Sweet 16 bids and an Elite Eight run in 1991.

Since Davis’ time with the Tigers, the program has made the NCAA Tournament just once.