{"id":423261,"date":"2024-11-29T18:53:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T18:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=423261"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Clemson-hopes-to-keep-momentum-going-vs-Florida-A-M","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Clemson-hopes-to-keep-momentum-going-vs-Florida-A-M\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson hopes to keep momentum going vs. Florida A&#038;M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off winning an in-season tournament, Clemson will host Florida A&amp;M on Friday night. The Tigers (6-1) have won three in a row and are coming off a 75-67 victory over Penn State, which handed the Nittany Lions their first loss of the season in the Sunshine Slam&#8217;s Beach Division final. Clemson faces the Rattlers (1-4) before entering a tough stretch of games that begins with a matchup against No. 8 Kentucky and continues with its Atlantic Coast Conference opener at Miami. Shaqir O&#8217;Neal scored 26 points to lead Florida A&amp;M to its first win of the season, a lopsided 110-68 victory over Trinity Baptist of the NCCAA last Friday. Florida A&amp;M had a season-best 17-of-39 shooting performance from 3-point range to key the win over Trinity Baptist &#8212; its first under first-year coach Patrick Crarey II. They also recorded 21 assists and had 49 points from their bench. However, the Rattlers have struggled mightily in their first four games against power-conference foes, losing each contest by 24 or more points. Presenting another major obstacle for Florida A&amp;M are the Tigers, who are averaging 74.7 points per game during their recent three-game winning streak, led by Chase Hunter and Ian Schieffelin. Hunter enters Friday&#8217;s game averaging a team-best 16.4 points per game and shooting 48.6 percent from 3-point range and 51.9 percent overall. Schieffelin is averaging a double-double with 13.6 points and 11.1 rebounds over the first seven games. He finished with an impressive 18 points and 13 rebounds in each of the Tigers&#8217; wins at the Sunshine Slam over San Francisco and Penn State. &#8220;Ian was phenomenal, almost getting a triple-double,&#8221; Clemson head coach Brad Brownell told the Clemson Insider. &#8220;I thought altogether, guys just made a lot of really tough plays. It was a possession or two game most of the game.&#8221; Sterling Young has paced the Rattlers with 13 points per game while Milton Matthews adds 11 ppg. &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/26d1bdae937f536037874ada980833d6.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Clemson guard Jaeden Zachery (11) makes a free throw near Radford guard Zion Walker (1) during the second half at Littlejohn Coliseum Thursday, November 21, 2024; Clemson, SC, USA.<\/p>\n<p>-Ken Ruinard &#8211; staff \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off winning an in-season tournament, Clemson will host Florida A&amp;M on Friday night. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}