Clemson’s basketball team has been so good on defense during its current four-game winning streak, that football’s defensive coordinator, Brent Venables, would be impressed.
When Clemson held Wake Forest and Georgia Tech to a combined 79 points in back-to-back games this past week, some pointed to the fact both of those teams struggled to shoot the basketball and ranked near the bottom of the conference in field goal percentage.
Virginia Tech, however, would be a truer test against Clemson’s improved defensive play. The 11th-ranked Hokies are one of the better shooting teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference and have one of the league’s top scorers in Nickeil Alexander-Walker, one of 20 players up for the coveted John Wooden Award.