Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs Clemson Tigers Match Player Stats On Feb 09, 2020

Rex Pflueger scored a season-high 18 points and Notre Dame outlasted Clemson, 61-57, Sunday night in an Atlantic Coast Conference game at Clemson's Littlejohn Coliseum.

It was the fourth consecutive victory for the Fighting Irish, who improved to 15-8 overall and 6-6 in the ACC. Clemson fell to 11-12, 5-8.

Pflueger, a graduate guard who entered the game averaging 5.2 points per game, made 6 of 8 shots from the floor, including 4 of 4 from 3-point range.

Senior forward John Mooney added 16 points and 11 rebounds for Notre Dame, his 19th double-double this season. Senior guard T.J. Gibbs scored 10 points and has scored in double figures in 11 straight games.

Notre Dame prevailed despite scoring only 61 points, its lowest point total in an ACC game this season. The Fighting Irish entered the game having scored 78 or more points in six consecutive games.

Notre Dame improved to 6-2 all-time against the Tigers.

Clemson was paced by freshman guard Alex Hemenway, who scored a career-high 16 points. Hemenway, of Newburgh, Indiana, made 5 of 8 shots from the floor, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range. Tevin Mack, a graduate guard, added 16 points for the Tigers.

Clemson, which led 29-27 at halftime, led by as many as seven points early in the second half, but Notre Dame rallied behind Mooney and Pflueger.

Clemson, which was playing without junior forward Aamir Simms, the team's leading scorer and rebounder who was sidelined by the flu, pulled within 54-52 with 2:51 remaining, but failed to make another field goal until Mack made a 3-pointer with 0.3 seconds left.

Clemson fell to 9-5 at home this season with its third consecutive defeat and fourth loss in its last five games.

The game kicked off a three-game ACC road stretch in a one-week span for Notre Dame, which shot 48 percent in the second half.

--Field Level Media