Early second-half energy only went so far for Brad Brownell’s Tigers as the No. 4 Virginia basketball team pulled away to a 63-43 win.
Clemson dropped to 0-3 in ACC play for the first time under Brownell, after going winless on road trips to No. 1 Duke and Syracuse in the past couple weeks.
The Littlejohn Coliseum crowd was in a celebratory mood with many coming in from the Clemson football National Championship parade on Saturday morning but that only carried over so much in atmosphere. With the game closer around the half, Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney and his team even energized the crowd with a halftime appearance and speech that seemed to improve things early in the second half.