Clemson lost its season opener to Virginia Tech in a bit of a surprise but bounced back nicely against Presbyterian, winning 79-45.
Granted, it’s the Blue Hose and not a powerful team but Clemson was still impressive. The Tigers played a lot of smart basketball and crushed it from three point range, hitting 14-34 from deep.
The Tigers forced 21 turnovers and, for the parts of the game we saw, played with some real savvy.
Over the years, Clemson has usually had either great talent and poor coaching or middling talent and solid coaching.
Brad Brownell is closer to the latter than the former but we liked what we saw from Clemson Thursday.