Saturday’s 67-60 win at Pittsburgh was truly a team-win for Clemson.

The Tigers, who snapped a six-game losing streak thanks to the victory, got contributions from everyone. Jaron Blossomgame was his normal steady self, scoring 25 points, while grabbing seven rebounds. Elijah Thomas made his first start for an injured Sidy Djitte, and despite guarding the ACC’s second leading scorer in Michael Young, he held his own in holding him to just 14 points, seven points below his season average.

Gabe DeVoe hit two key buckets late in the game, first a baseline jumper and the second off a putback with 3:27 left in the game. Marcquise Reed, who played two seasons ago at Robert Morris which is just down the road from the Petersen Center, slammed the door with a weaving layup with 36 seconds to play, giving the Tigers a six-point lead, 66-60.

Reed posted 10 points off the bench, while DeVoe added nine.

Then there was point guard Shelton Mitchell. Not only was he getting the basketball to the Tigers’ scorers, but he was also scoring with the ball himself. The sophomore tallied 12 points, while dishing out six assists and more importantly had no turnovers.

“He showed what kind of player he could be,” Clemson head coach Brad Brownell said to the Clemson Tigers Sports Network after the game. “He is a talented guy. If that knee can stay healthy, that will help. The extra couple of days probably helped him a little bit. It looked like he had a little more burst today to get by people and make plays in the lane. We certainly needed that.”

In his last two games, Mitchell has recorded 16 assists to just two turnovers.

“I thought Shelton Mitchell had an unbelievable game for us,” Brownell said. “We put a lot of pressure on him with the ball in his hand and because of the switches, we asked him to drive on miss-matches and make plays and he was able to do that as well as pick up six assists and had no turnovers.”

Brownell says when Mitchell is playing the way he has played the last two games, especially when he becomes a scorer, that’s when he can make things happen.

“We need one more guy to kind of go by their man. Marquise can do it. Gabe occasionally can, Donte occasionally can,” Brownell said. “But (Shelton) with the ball out front is really how things have to happen for us, late in games especially to kind of win some road games.”

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