Clemson aims to snap a two-game slide on Saturday afternoon when it hosts Mercer.

The Tigers (7-3) have narrowly lost back-to-back games to power-conference opponents, falling by six points at Alabama last week and by three points to BYU on Tuesday at a neutral-site clash in New York. Robert Wright III made a last-second 3-pointer to lift the Cougars to victory.

What doomed Clemson was its inability to stop the Cougars from grabbing offensive rebounds and turning those opportunities into points. BYU pulled down 16 offensive boards and flipped them into 22 second-chance points. The Tigers also seemingly didn't have an answer for BYU's AJ Dybantsa, who scored 28 points.

The Tigers led by as many as 22 points at the start of the second half before collapsing, which Clemson coach Brad Brown

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