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Tigers enter ACC play at high Tide |
CLEMSON — Alabama’s basketball team had no luck accomplishing what the school’s football program did months ago: hand Clemson its first loss.The 12th-ranked Tigers, sporting their highest ranking since the 1996-97 season, completed their nonconference slate unblemished by scooting past the Crimson Tide 66-59 Tuesday in front of a near-capacity crowd at Littlejohn Coliseum.It wasn’t without a few tenuous moments, yet with Illinois State’s loss at Bradley, Clemson (15-0) emerged as just one of three remaining Division I unbeatens, joining No. 1 Pittsburgh and No. 4 Wake Forest.“It’s a heck of a accomplishment to go through nonconference season unbeaten, and I congratulate our guys on that,” coach Oliver Purnell said. “But we have to recognize we have a lot of work to do, and a lot of that showed up.”“There are a lot of things you normally need to do well, yet we won in a fairly convincing way against a team that came in playing well.”
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