When Duke travels to Clemson on Wednesday – oops, to Greenville, S.C., to play Clemson – it will face one of the hotter teams in the ACC.
The Tigers opened their conference season at Chapel Hill, where they are apparently ordained to always lose. Certainly they fulfilled that destiny this year; they fought hard and hung around but never really threatened.
The visit to North Carolina turned out to be a warmup for better things. Clemson next hosted Florida State, and won decisively. It journeyed to Syracuse and triumphed in overtime. Then Brad Brownell’s team got a visit from 16th-ranked Louisville, which had just handled N.