\n\t\t\t\t\t\t(AP) \u2014 Ace Buckner and RJ Godfrey each scored 13 points as No. 20 Clemson overwhelmed California 77-55 and moved into a first-place tie with No. 4 Duke in the Atlantic Coast Conference on Saturday.The Tigers (20-4, 10-1) and Blue Devils meet in Durham, North Carolina, next Saturday. Duke (21-2, 10-1) lost 71-68 at No. 14 North Carolina on Saturday.Clemson has won 14 consecutive ACC road games, tied for the second-longest road win streak in conference history. Duke won 24 in a row from 1998 through 2001. The Blue Devils also had a 14-game road ACC win streak (1962-64).Jake Wahlin and Carter Welling each had 11 points for the Tigers, who went 27 for 59 (55.1%) from the floor, including 12 for 26 (46.2%) from beyond the arc.Justin Pippen led Cal (17-7, 5-6) with a game-high 19 points.Pippen’s 3-pointer less than five minutes into the game gave the Bears a 13-9 lead. The Tigers then put together a 23-1 spurt capped by Wahlin’s 3 that put Clemson up 32-14 with three minutes left in the half.Dai Dai Ames scored for California on the ensuing possession, ending the Bears\u2019 field-goal drought at nearly 13 minutes.Clemson entered Saturday second in the ACC in fewest points allowed per game at 64.5. The Tigers led 39-20 at halftime as they held the Bears to 6 for 25 shooting in the opening half. California also committed nine turnovers in the first 20 minutes.Cal played without center Lee Dort. He missed his fourth straight game because of a leg injury he suffered in the Bears\u2019 78-66 win at Stanford on Jan. 24.Clemson: Hosts Virginia Tech on Wednesday.Cal: Plays at Syracuse on Wednesday.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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(AP) \u2014 Ace Buckner and RJ Godfrey each scored 13 points as No. 20 Clemson overwhelmed California 77-55 and moved into a first-place tie with No. 4 Duke in the Atlantic Coast Conference on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Tigers (20-4, 10-1) and Blue Devils meet in Durham, North Carolina, next Saturday. Duke (21-2, 10-1) lost 71-68 at No. 14 North Carolina on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Clemson has won 14 consecutive ACC road games, tied for the second-longest road win streak in conference history. Duke won 24 in a row from 1998 through 2001. The Blue Devils also had a 14-game road ACC win streak (1962-64).<\/p>\n
Jake Wahlin and Carter Welling each had 11 points for the Tigers, who went 27 for 59 (55.1%) from the floor, including 12 for 26 (46.2%) from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n
Justin Pippen led Cal (17-7, 5-6) with a game-high 19 points.<\/p>\n
Pippen’s 3-pointer less than five minutes into the game gave the Bears a 13-9 lead. The Tigers then put together a 23-1 spurt capped by Wahlin’s 3 that put Clemson up 32-14 with three minutes left in the half.<\/p>\n
Dai Dai Ames scored for California on the ensuing possession, ending the Bears\u2019 field-goal drought at nearly 13 minutes.<\/p>\n
Clemson entered Saturday second in the ACC in fewest points allowed per game at 64.5. The Tigers led 39-20 at halftime as they held the Bears to 6 for 25 shooting in the opening half. California also committed nine turnovers in the first 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
Cal played without center Lee Dort. He missed his fourth straight game because of a leg injury he suffered in the Bears\u2019 78-66 win at Stanford on Jan. 24.<\/p>\n
Clemson: Hosts Virginia Tech on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Cal: Plays at Syracuse on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP) \u2014 Ace Buckner and RJ Godfrey each scored 13 points as No. 20 Clemson overwhelmed California 77-55…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23325,11604,10109,7,9,8,81080,81081,13661,4213,23324,1101,477,23311,5463,6138,1417,595,47647,316],"class_list":["post-168845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-acc","tag-bears","tag-cal","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-clemson","tag-clemson-basketball","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-college-basketball","tag-duke","tag-first-place","tag-half","tag-justin-pippen","tag-minute","tag-north-carolina","tag-point","tag-saturday","tag-tigers","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}