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Clemson basketball returns home after Barcelona van attack

Clemson v Duke

DURHAM, NC - FEBRUARY 11: Head coach Brad Brownell of the Clemson Tigers directs his team against the Duke Blue Devils during the game at Cameron Indoor Stadium on February 11, 2017 in Durham, North Carolina. Duke won 64-62. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)

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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson’s basketball team arrived back on campus, a day after a deadly van attack in Barcelona that occurred just outside their hotel.

The Tigers were preparing to play their fourth and final game of a summer tour of Spain when a van drove up on a sidewalk and crashed into scores of people in Las Ramblas promenade, killing 13. Clemson canceled the final game and flew back home as scheduled Friday.

Teams from Arizona and Oregon State were also staying at the hotel. A fourth team, Tulane, was in Barcelona at a different hotel. All of the schools said their parties were unharmed.

Clemson coach Brad Brownell tweeted Friday the team had landed in Atlanta and was “excited to be back in this great country.”