After a couple of weeks of coming up short in so-called “must-win” scenarios and trying to scratch and claw for every victory it can muster, conventional wisdom suggests that Clemson basketball’s recent swoon could cause an overflow of frustration and discontentment. While some of that exists, the Tigers’ head coach says one underlying fact has kept his team from wallowing.
“We haven’t played that poorly,” he said. “If we were playing really bad, then I think we might be a little more down or disappointed. We certainly aren’t happy.”
Clemson has lost three straight games and five of its last seven coming down the stretch, but one of those two victories came against Saturday’s opponent—Boston College—in a 65-54 home win that proved more difficult to achieve than most on the outside expected.