By Will Vandervort.

For the third time this season the Clemson basketball team will have two days to get ready for an ACC opponent and for the second time it comes following a home victory.

The Tigers (15-10, 7-6 ACC) will visit Georgia Tech tonight at 7 p.m., just two days after beating Virginia Tech, 75-54, in Littlejohn Coliseum.

“Yeah, we’ve had a lot of these,” Clemson head coach Brad Brownell said. “I think it’s our third one. It’s hard.”

Clemson is 0-2 this year in the previous two games in which it had just one day to prepare. Following a win at home against Syracuse, the Tigers were beaten two days later at home against Florida State.  Just last week, the Tigers lost at Miami on a Sunday and turned around and lost a heartbreaker to No. 10 Notre Dame at home two days later.

Now they face Georgia Tech (11-14, 2-11 ACC) on the road. Like Clemson, the Yellow Jackets also have one day to prepare. Florida State beat the Yellow Jackets on Saturday, 57-53.

“You don’t have a practice day; we can’t guard the Georgia Tech offensive stuff like we would if we had a day to practice,” Brownell said. “So you walk through it a little bit, but it’s not the same. You can’t practice different things you want to do offensively to make adjustments sometimes.

“There’s a lot of mental practice.”

The Tigers are looking to hold on to the No. 6 spot in the ACC standings with a win. Right now they are a half-game ahead of Pittsburgh and one game ahead of the Seminoles and NC State.

“We are feeling pretty confident right now,” Clemson forward Jaron Blossomgame said. “We had a very good week of practice so the confidence and momentum (from the Virginia Tech win) will carry over. We just have to stay focused on getting this win.”

Clemson connected on a season-high 47.4 percent of its shots in the win over Virginia Tech, including a season-high 11 three-pointers. The Tigers led by as many as 35 points against the Hokies in the second half. Jordan Roper scored 21 points and was 5 of 6 from behind the arc, while Blossomgame scored 14 points and grabbed seven rebounds.

“Coming off a win hopefully that will keep us energized and let us play well, but Georgia Tech is a different team,” Brownell said. “They’re not as good of a three-point shooting team, but they’re physical like us, they rebound and they defend. Our games with them are usually low-scoring, it’s hard.”

And it’s harder to play on just two-day rest.