By Will Vandervort.

Clemson did not send off Littlejohn Coliseum the way it wanted too on Tuesday. The Tigers shot 29.9 percent from the field and missed 15 straight shots during a 14 minute and 13 second span as NC State went on a 25-3 run in the second half to beat Clemson 66-61 in the last regular-season game at Littlejohn Coliseum as we know it.

“We made poor decisions in terms of shot selection, guys were just too jacked and took bad shots,” Clemson head coach Brad Brownell said.

Littlejohn, which opened in 1968, will undergo a rebuild project of $63.5 million over the next year and a half and will not reopen until November of 2016.

The Tigers had taken a six-point lead, 30-24, on two Donte Grantham free throws with 16:51 to play. Those free shots followed a Grantham three from the top of the key with 17:49 to play. After that, they went cold.

The Tigers did not make a field again until Gabe DeVoe made a three pointer with 3:26 to go. By that time NC State built a 16-point lead.

DeVoe, who was 0-for-20 at Littlejohn coming in, connected on 6 of 10 shots and was 3 of 7 from behind the arc. Grantham scored 12 points and had six rebounds.

“I’m really happy and proud of Gabe,” Bronwell said. “The last month is when it really has started to click. He really, really struggled in November and December. It has taken him longer than we had hoped and thought, but finally the game has slowed down a little bit for him. He has strength and he has deep shooting ability and that’s two things we need.

“I don’t know if he has made a shot in this building until tonight and he made six.”

DeVoe scored eight points at Duke on Feb. 21.

“He has had other opportunities to score and he has not done it, but obviously I put him out there against Duke and he played very well at Duke and tonight he was fantastic,” Brownell said. “He was in a situation where he can just let her fly and he did and he made shots. Hopefully that just builds his confidence.”

In between, Clemson missed 15 straight shots. There was a five-minute stretch in which the Tigers missed 10 straight shots and turned the basketball over four times, while NC State made 6 of 9 shots and had no turnovers.

The key part of the game came at the 9:23 mark of the second half when Clemson head coach Brad Brownell was called for just his second technical foul in his Clemson career when he disputed why a foul was not called when Demarcus Harrison was coming down the floor before ultimately being called for a charge as he attacked the rim.

The technical foul allowed the Wolfpack’s Ralston Turner to make both free throws and then another on the ensuing possession to up the lead to 40-33 for State with 9:10 to play.

Turner was a throne in the Tigers side in the second half. After being held to two points on 0-for-4 shooting the first half, he caught fire in the second half as he scored 21 of his 23 points. He was 12 of 15 from the foul line and was 3 of 8 from behind the arc.

“We really lost the game because we did not guard,” Brownell said. “As a team, you have to know what your identity is. We are not going to get into scoring contest with the better teams in this league offensively and win. It is just not are nature and it isn’t what we do.”

NC State scored 46 points in the second half and was 5 of 9 from three-point range.

“That is not going to be good enough for us,” Brownell said. “Unfortunately, we never turned that around. We got into our drought and had our drought offensively, but really the game was lost because of poor defense in the second half.”

With Clemson up 30-24 following the Grantham three, Turner scored eight straight points—including two three pointers—to tie the game at 32 with 13:31 to play.

Clemson shot just 29 percent from the field and was led by Devoe’s career-high 18 points. He scored all 18 points in the last 3:26.

The Tigers (16-13, 8-9 ACC), who will play at Notre Dame on Saturday, rallied to cut the lead under 10 in the final minutes, but by that time it was a little too late as NC State avenged its January 28 loss to Clemson in Raleigh.

With the win, the Wolfpack improve to 18-12 and 9-8 in the ACC, while keeping their NCAA Tournament hopes alive.

Clemson led 21-20 at halftime thanks to just 25 percent shooting from NC State.  The Wolfpack were just two of 13 on non-three-point attempts. They were 4-for-11 from behind the arc, which kept them close.

But Clemson did not fare much better. The Tigers shot just 31 percent and were 1-for-10 from downtown.

“I think our guys were really excited to play and compete, almost a little too excited,” Brownell said. “I think my guys were a little too up to be honest with you. I thought we played great defensively for the first twenty minutes, but unfortunately we took some bad shots.”

The Tigers were led by Rod Hall’s six first half points.

Clemson led by as many as five points and used a 7-0 run midway through the half to take a 15-10 lead. Following a floater by Hall, Austin Ajukwa nailed a three from the left side and then Landry Nnoko powered his way inside for two more points with 8:40 to go in the opening half.

NC State rallied though and ultimately took the lead back. There were 10 lead changes in the first half.