They've accomplished nothing to prove that, but go on thinking it if you like. Clemson is shit. They are shit every year.
What have we accomplished that proves we are as good as Clemson, as you claim? That we beat a horrible Georgetown team twice? That we won 4 games away from home all year?
They won 6 games. We won 8.
8 is better than 6, except, somehow, to you it isn't.
They made the NIT on a technicality.
You're actually cherry-picking, as Clemson overall won 17 games, while we won 14. They made the NIT because they deserved it, per the NIT committee. Regardless, Clemson was mediocre and we stunk it up this past season. Hopefully, we can bounce back and find ourselves amongst the NCAA Tournament field.
Clemson and St.John's were both bad. My only point is that they were worse because they were worse. I don't give a shit that they won 17 games. They beat a massively overrated FSU team, and they also beat, oh yea, right, no one else.
*Correction, Clemson didn't beat FSU. They beat Wake Forest, Davidson, Oklahoma and 14 other piles of garbage. But because a winning record is more important than quality wins, they made the nit, and we didn't. We're pretty light on quality wins, but we have more than Clemson, because they have zero.