Lady Tigers show fight in loss to Wake Forest

Clemson's Nikki Dixon, left, reaches in and steals the basketball from Wake Forest's Brooke Thomas in Sunday's 63-51 loss at Littlejohn Coliseum. Dixon had a career-high seven steals. Photo by Rex Brown

By Will Vandervort

CLEMSON — Clemson was right where it wanted to be Sunday. The Lady Tigers were making shots. They were getting steals and forcing Wake Forest into bad shots.

When Chanice Dunn’s layup pulled them within four points of Wake Forest with 10:07 to play, it appeared everything was in place for the Lady Tigers to snap a four-game losing streak. Then the Demon Deacons got hot.

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Hawkins learns on-court battles are secondary

Clemson freshman Deja Hawkins scored eight points against Maryland last Thursday. The post player is slowly making her way back after suffering two seizures last November. Photo by Rex Brown

By William Qualkinbush

CLEMSON — Most freshmen on college campuses can normally concern themselves with adapting to new routines. First-year student-athletes try not to get behind on school work and do whatever they can to get into the lineup in their respective sports.

For Clemson freshman Deja Hawkins, the struggle to get onto the basketball court is secondary, trumped by a much bigger battle she has had to face this season.

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Even stitches could not slow Dixon down

Clemson's Nikki Dixon drives to the basket in the Lady Tigers' come-from-behind overtime win at Virginia Tech on Friday. Photo by Rex Brown

By Will Vandervort

BLACKSBURG, VA — Virginia Tech did everything it could to stop Clemson freshman Nikki Dixon on Friday night at Cassell Coliseum, even giving her a gash that required the first two stitches of her career to her forehead. But even that did not slow down the reigning ACC Rookie of the Week.

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Patient Coleman awaits growth

Clemson's Lindsey Mason (31) and Kelly Gramlich (5) try to block the shot of Georgia Tech's Tyaunna Marshall in Sunday's loss at Littlejohn Coliseum. Photo by Rex Brown

By William Qualkinbush

CLEMSON — Patience is a virtue.

The cliché is used to indicate the importance of a person allowing things to go wrong around him or her without letting an emotional reaction take place. If patience is indeed a virtue, it is one that Clemson women’s basketball coach Itoro Coleman has mastered all too well this season.

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Lady Tigers’ bid at upset falls short

Clemson's Nikki Dixon launches one of her three three-pointers in Sunday's loss to Georgia Tech. Dixon led Clemson with 18 points. Photo by Rex Brown

By Will Vandervort

CLEMSON — When Chancie Dunn let a three-pointer from the top of the key go with 2:38 to play Sunday afternoon, it appeared Clemson’s Lady Tigers were on their way to pulling off their second victory over a top-25 team in as many weeks.

However, Dunn’s attempt rimmed in and out, and Georgia Tech’s Tyaunna Marshall secured the rebound. Twenty-one seconds later, Tech’s Sasha Goodlett made a layup and following a steal, Marshall hit a 15-foot jump shot to end Clemson’s upset bid as the Yellow Jackets pulled away for a 63-54 victory at Littlejohn Coliseum.

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More minutes have Gramlich thinking bigger

The Clemson women’s basketball team has not struggled on the defensive end of the floor this season. In fact, Head Coach Itoro Coleman has applauded her team’s effort on several occasions.

But the team has yet to establish a hierarchy of scoring, often getting major contributions from one or two players but relatively unable to get consistent production from a variety of sources.

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Lady Tigers are still working kinks out

Clemson's Nikki Dixon scored 17 points in the Lady Tigers' loss to NC State last Thursday night. Photo by Rex Brown

By Will Vandervort

CLEMSON — There were moments in Clemson’s game against NC State on Thursday night that showed why the Lady Tigers were able to take down a nationally ranked North Carolina team on the road last week, and there were moments that explained why they lost 62-46 at home to an unranked NC State team.

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Hard work pays off

Clemson point guard Chelsea Lindsay scored eight points and was 6-6 from the foul line in the Lady Tigers 52-47 victory over North Carolina last Thursday night in Chapel Hill, NC. Photo by Rex Brown

Lady Tigers knock off No. 21 North Carolina

By Will Vandervort

CLEMSON — Before her team went out and played No. 21 North Carolina last Thursday night, Clemson Head Coach Itoro Coleman told her Lady Tigers to go out and have fun and focus on getting better.

Though winning the game was her goal, the second-year head coach got so caught up in coaching her team up, she too blocked out the score.

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