The Clemson Tigers have cooled off after their sizzling begin to ACC play. They’ve dropped every of their final two matchups — this time at dwelling to a ranked Miami Hurricane squad, 78-74.
For the Tigers, this was their first dwelling lack of the season and third loss in convention play. For the second straight yr, Clemson has suffered a gut-punching loss to Miami, this one positive to knock them out of the subsequent AP Prime 25 ballot on Monday.
A tightly contested recreation all through the whole lot of the primary half, noticed each groups commerce baskets for the primary 20 minutes of motion. Hunter Tyson was his regular self within the first interval, pulling down three 3-pointers, however it wasn’t sufficient for Clemson to drag away, the groups had been tied 35-35 at half.
Miami obtained off to a scorching sizzling begin taking pictures to start out off the second half. 4 of their first three made area objectives had been 3-pointers giving them their first substantial run of the sport. The Hurricanes led by as many as 12 factors after the primary 9 minutes of half quantity two, primarily to do with their taking pictures.
Clemson fought again within the final 10 minutes of the competition, persevering with to indicate a willingness to by no means stop. Brevin Galloway obtained the Tigers again inside putting distance changing on an and-one with three minutes left, adopted by a PJ Corridor layup to place Clemson down by three. The Tigers had been capable of lower the deficit to 2 factors with one second left after Hemenway made a prayer from means downtown, however Nijel Pack iced the sport for good on the FT line.
PJ Corridor had a really quiet first half, scoring simply two factors, however had an offensive explosion with 17 factors on 7-9 taking pictures from the ground within the second half.
Hunter Tyson had his eleventh double-double of the season, scoring 13 and grabbing 10 rebounds. He solely tried seven pictures pulling down 5 of these.
Brevin Galloway in his first recreation again from his absence, dropped 15 factors on 11 pictures.
Clemson fought arduous, however struggled to match Miami on the boards. The Hurricanes hauled in seven extra offensive rebounds than the Tigers, securing a rebound margin of plus-10.
The schedule doesn’t get a lot simpler for Clemson. They journey to Chapel Hill subsequent weekend, making an attempt to keep away from a 3 recreation shedding streak.
The Tigers are actually 18-6 total, 10-3 in ACC play with three extra video games remaining at Littlejohn Coliseum.
