History suggested winning in Charlottesville wouldn’t be easy for the Clemson men’s basketball team on Saturday, and for a while, that proved to be true.
Overcoming a sluggish shooting start, the No. 13-ranked Tigers rode a 20-2 second-half surge to top Virginia (14-15, 7-11), 71-58. Clemson improved on its school-record conference win total (24-5, 16-2 ACC) and won its seventh consecutive ACC road game (an eighth total) and sixth game overall this season.
How rare is the feat of a Clemson win in Charlottesville? The Tigers had won there just five times since 1990, and Brad Brownell became the first Tiger coach since Cliff Ellis to win there multiple times in a tenure (both did so twice now each).