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 CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) - With a bandage covering the brow over his puffy left eye, Vernon Hamilton looked more like a boxer than Clemson's point guard. So it seemed fitting when Hamilton spoke of handling the punches that have come the Tigers' way this season.
Hamilton had 13 points to help the 25th-ranked Tigers remain undefeated at 13-0 with a 75-60 victory over Georgia. And while fast starts are nothing new to Hamilton — Clemson opened 11-0 a season ago — he thinks the Tigers are better equipped to keep it going this time.
The difference is "in how we are able to sustain blows. ... A couple of blows we took last year, we would've hung our heads and not continue to stay with our style of basketball," he said. "Now we have complete confidence in one another."
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