Nick Davidson scored 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds as No. 20 Clemson extended its Atlantic Coast Conference road winning streak to 13 games with a 66-64 victory over Stanford on Wednesday night.
Davidson made two free throws to put Clemson (19-4, 9-1 ACC) ahead 64-62 with 23 seconds left. The Tigers maintained the lead after the Cardinal’s Ebuka Okorie missed a 3-point try with 7.1 seconds remaining.
Ace Buckner added two free throws with 3.7 seconds left to help Clemson win for the 12th time in the past 13 games. Okorie scored at the buzzer for the final margin.
Buckner finished with 11 points and Chase Thompson added a career-high 10 for the Tigers, who won despite not making a field goal in the final four minutes.
Aidan Cammann led Stanford (14-9, 3-7) with a career-high 19 points on 7-of-12 shooting. Okorie added 18 points, and Oskar Giltay had 11 rebounds.
The Cardinal have lost five straight since beginning the season 14-4.
Clemson led 26-19 with 5:23 left in the first half before Okorie made two 3-pointers during a 13-4 run to help Stanford move ahead 32-30 entering halftime.
Okorie led all scorers with 12 points in the first half, while eight players scored for Clemson.
The Tigers, who were held to one field goal in the final 5:23 the opening half, fell behind 41-35 on Okorie’s dunk with 14:19 left in the contest.
After Clemson moved ahead 56-50 on Davidson’s 3-pointer, Stanford answered with an 8-2 run to tie the game at 58-all with 5:36 remaining on a hoop from Jeremy Dent-Smith.
Okorie, who entered the game ranked 10th in the country in scoring at 21.8 points per game, made two free throws to tie the game at 62-all with 3:08 left. The star freshman hit 6 of 11 shots from the field and dished three assists.
RJ Godfrey scored nine points and Jestin Porter added eight for Clemson, which shot 45.7% from the field and 41.2% (7 of 17) from 3-point range. Carter Welling pulled down eight rebounds.
–Field Level Media
