State loses 60-50 in LittleJohn Coliseum tonight after a pitiful and embarrassing performance. After leading by 19 points, 31-12, with 6:10 remaining in the first half (and 34-29 at the half), Clemson outscored State 48-19 the rest of the game.
How ugly was it? Well, it was apparently the largest comeback in Clemson’s history.
How did it happen? Well, State had field goal droughts of 4:08, 6:03, 5:30 and then watched as Clemson ended the game on a 17-2 run over the final 7:59, with State’s final points of the game at the 2:20 mark. State had a total of 16 points in the second half, with six of them in the first three minutes of the half off Scott Wood three pointers.
State falls to 2-4 in conference play with a trip to Chapel Hill looming.
It took new Clemson Head Coach, Brad Brownell, all of a half of a year to take the lead over Coach Lowe. I don’t know a soul in college basketball who would/could argue that Clemson has more talent than NC State. So, spotting a team with more talent a 19 point lead equates to a COLOSSAL implosion.
This one is basically the point of no return for the Wolfpack Basketball program under Coach Sidney Lowe. Based on the weakness of our schedule and the lack of quality of our losses, the Wolfpack projects to need to win eight of our last ten regular season games to earn an NCAA Tournament berth. What are the odds of that happening?
