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Mar 05, 2020

MBB GAMEDAY CENTRAL – Georgia Tech

GAMEDAY INFORMATION

📍 Littlejohn Coliseum  – Clemson, S.C.

🏀⏰ Tipoff Time – 7:01 p.m.

👀🖥 ESPN2

📈📊 Live Stats

👂🏼📻: Clemson Tigers Network (Don Munson and Tim Bourret)

📝 Notes

PREVIEW

SETTING THE SCENE BETWEEN THE TIGERS AND YELLOW JACKETS

• The Clemson Tigers will to finish the season at the .500 mark in league play with its 10th win of the ACC seaason.

• The contest will be televised on ESPN2 with Anish Shroff and Malcolm Huckaby calling the action courtside, while Don Munson and Tim Bourret will call the action on the radio waves. The radio call will be available on the Clemson Tigers Network and Tunein.com.

• Live stats will be provided on ClemsonTigers.com and Twitter updates will be available on Clemson’s official account (@ClemsonMBB).


CLEMSON BASKETBALL HEADLINES

• Al-Amir Dawes scored 18 points, including the game-winning basket with 1.0 second left to top FSU, 70-69.

• The Tigers earned their third Top-6 ranked win of the season and now leads the country in Top-6 victories.

• Dawes scored a career-high 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting from the floor to help fuel the Tigers to a resounding 18-point road win at BC. The eight field goals six made 3-pointers.

• Clemson shot lights out at Boston College, breaking a program record for shooting percentage in an ACC road game (68.9 percent). The previous high was set 36 years ago on Feb. 21, 1984 at Virginia (67.5 percent).

• Clemson has played 1,055 true road games in history – that is the best shooting percentage in any road game all time.

• Behind a career-high 23 points from John Newman III, the Tigers dominated No. 5/5 Louisville 77-62. It was the Tigers’ first time beating two Top-5 opponents in the same year since 1979-80. (Beat Duke 79-72 on Jan. 14).

• Tevin Mack turned in a career performance against Syracuse with 32 points and 10 assists. It was his second double-double and a career-best 32 points. The performance came via a career-best 12 made field goals.

• Beating Wake Forest gave Clemson at least a break-even record in the season series against all four ACC schools from the Tar Heel state. It’s the first time since 1989-90 when Clemson was 1-1 vs. Duke, 1-1 vs. UNC, 1-1 vs. NC State and 3-0 vs. Wake Forest.

• Clemson defeated No. 3/3 Duke on for its first win over an AP top-3 ranked opponent since North Carolina on Feb. 18, 2001.

• With that win over Duke on Jan. 14, Head Coach Brad Brownell passed Cliff Ellis for the all-time wins mark in Clemson basketball history.

• Clemson has been bitten by the injury bug in 2019, having many key players miss time due to injuries, which includes three starting players. For much of the season, Clemson has had as few as eight scholarship players active. Clemson has had players miss 71 games this season.

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