The No. 3 North Carolina males’s basketball crew was upset by an unranked program for the second time in eight days, dropping an 80-76 choice to Clemson on Tuesday night time.
The loss comes only one week after the Tarheels had been upset by unranked Georgia Tech 74-73. Oddly sufficient, in between the 2 heartbreaks was a signature enormous win towards No. 7 Duke over the weekend, making it fairly the curler coaster week for the Tar Heels.
Whereas UNC should now look to regain its kind, having received 10 in a row earlier than falling to GT, Clemson is hoping to have lastly discovered its personal. And maybe this system’s second-ever win in Chapel Hill would be the ticket; CU was 1-60 all-time coming into the night time.
Earlier than the upset, the Tigers had received simply three of their final 9 video games.
PJ Corridor led Clemson with a team-high 25 factors within the win over UNC. The efficiency keyed a wire-to-wire win that began with the Tigers racing out to a 15-2 lead.
Though North Carolina was in a position to shut that hole within the second half and make it a sport down the stretch, Clemson by no means discovered itself the place it needed to play from behind at any level within the sport.
The outcome provides the Tigers a pair of wins over top-25 groups having beat Alabama earlier within the season. Clemson now has 4 Quadrant 1 wins on its resume and has yet another alternative towards a Q1 crew later this season towards Wake Forest.
