CLEMSON, SC (AP) -- Tanner Smith and Demontez Stitt scored 14 points each and No. 18 Clemson won its sixth straight game over rival South Carolina, 72-61 on Sunday.
The Tigers (7-2) used a late 18-6 run to pull away -- and bounce back from a bad defeat to Illinois on Wednesday night when they surrendered a 23-point second-half lead and lost 76-74.
In this one, Clemson got back on track by holding Devan Downey of the Gamecocks (6-2) in check.
Downey a scored a career-high 37 points against the Tigers last season. But he was just 3 of 15 from the field for eight points.
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