By Will Vandervort.

The last time Clemson won four straight games against ACC competition most of the players on the current team were in diapers.

“That’s pretty crazy,” Clemson guard Jordan Roper said. “It is good to get rolling and get some momentum. It feels good right now.”

The Tigers (14-8, 6-4 ACC) are rolling. No Clemson team has won four consecutive ACC games since the 1996-’97 team, coached by Rick Barnes, beat Duke, Florida State, Maryland and NC State in consecutive games. This year’s team is just the ninth Clemson team to win four straight conference games in the 61-year history of the ACC.

“That is a long time. That speaks to how hard it is to win in this league in basketball,” Clemson head coach Brad Brownell said. “This is a really hard league and it is hard to win a couple of games in a row and obviously four is almost a 20-year span since we have had that.

“Hopefully, it will not be another 18 years before we win four in a row, again.”

The longest winning streak in Clemson history came in 1967, when Press Maravich’s team won seven in a row – all in February.

“We will try to do a little bit better, but it is a hard league,” said Brownell, whose Tigers will play at Miami on Sunday (6:30 p.m.). “You are going to have competitive games that go your way and right now we are in a good stretch where we have a few that has gone our way, but if we lose one we have to regroup and try to make sure it does not lead to something that goes the other way too far.”

During its current win streak, Clemson has taken down Wake Forest, won at NC State, beat Boston College at home and avenged an earlier loss to Florida State by going on the road and winning in Tallahassee.

“We are playing really well right now,” Roper said. “That’s a credit to what we are doing on the defensive end. It’s just confidence. Momentum is a huge thing in sports and we have a lot of momentum right now.”

The Tigers have won five of its last six games after a 1-3 start to the ACC season. Since the Louisville game on Jan. 7, Clemson has won six of its last eight games.

“If you can keep it going one way or the other without getting into a hole where you lose all momentum and confidence that is really big,” Brownell said. “We have been able to do that this year when we have had some games when we have not played as well.

“I don’t think it has lingered and we have been able to bounce back and put a good performance together and build some confidence slowly off of that.”

A win Sunday at Miami can help the Tigers secure an even harder statistical anomaly – it could make them only the sixth Clemson team in history to win four ACC road games in a season.

“There will still be challenges ahead on the road,” Roper said. “We just hope to figure it out. That is what the whole season is, it’s a journey. I think we are playing really well right now and we have a lot of momentum.”