CLEMSON -- Veteran Clemson center P.J. Hall announced Thursday his intention to remain with the Tigers for his final season in 2023-24.

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Hall had been mulling a decision between jumping to the NBA or returning to school for his senior season after spending last week at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago, Ill.

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Hall performed so well at the recent NBA G League Elite Camp that it produced an invite to last week's NBA Combine in Chicago, where 78 players participated in hopes of being among the 58 picks in the upcoming NBA Draft.

Hall's importance to the program became abundantly clear near the end of the 2021-22 season when he valiantly played through injuries as a sophomore.

He missed the entirety of last offseason after undergoing multiple surgeries, and even as he spent much of the season returning to full strength he tied Hunter Tyson as the scoring leader with 15.9 points per game, plus a 5.7-rebound average.

He's fully healthy now for the first time in a long time, and that was a big part of his eye-opening combine performances.

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Several of the program's big transactional decisions this offseason were made on the assumption that he'd return.

Ben Middlebrooks put his name in the transfer portal because he didn't want his minutes diminished by sitting behind Hall. He ended up at N.C. State.

And Brad Brownell's pursuit of UNC Greensboro transfer Bas Leyte was based on the idea of finding someone who'd be suited to the reduced minutes that come with playing the same position as Hall.

The addition of Syracuse transfer Joseph Girard gives Clemson the ACC's leading returning scorer in conference games (17.8 ppg).

The conference's No. 2 returning scorer would be Hall at 17.6.

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