GREENVILLE — With 8:10 to play on Saturday, Florida State and Clemson were in a deadlock at 54. Then the Tigers got hot.

Siddy Djitte hit two free throws, Donte Grantham finger rolled a layup and Jordan Roper drained a three-pointer. Just like that, the Tigers were up seven points. Clemson extended the lead to seven points and then hung on for a 84-75 victory at Bon Secours Wellness Arena.

“That was an outstanding win for us. I thought our guys have really been focused since Christmas,” Clemson head coach Brad Brownell said. “We have done a really good job in preparation for both games. North Carolina and Florida State are both really talented teams.

“Florida State is probably an NCAA Tournament team, and I just really thought our guys were locked in. We had a quick turnaround, short preparation time and I thought our focus and energy level were both really great.”

Clemson’s win marked the first time in the last five meetings the home team won the game between the two. FSU had one three straight on Clemson’s home floor. The Tigers last win at home came in 2012.

Jordan Roper led Clemson with 23 points, while Sidy Djitte and Avery Holmes added 14 and 15 points respectively. Blossomgame had 10 points and nine rebounds. Roper had a career-high seven three pointers and was 7-11 from the field, including 7-10 from behind the arc.

“Certainly, Jordan making seven three-pointers was big, especially for our team,” Brownell said. “I thought we did a lot of things effectively, the zone was good for us today. We knew this was a game where we were going to play zone, quite a lot of zone actually. We thought we might would have played more against North Carolina but we didn’t. Just a really good performance. We only turned it over nine times and had 15 assists and made our free throws. We played very, very well today.”

The Tigers outscored FSU 30-21 down the stretch to end a three-game losing streak. The Seminoles had won six in a row before Saturday’s loss. FSU falls to 10-3 and 0-1 in the ACC.

Clemson (8-6, 1-1 ACC) shot 44.6 percent from the field, and connected on 16 of 20 from the foul line in the final 3:40. The Tigers finished the game 24-33 from the charity stripe.

Clemson led 35-33 at the break has Roper paced the Tigers with 12 points, while Landry Nnoko had nine points. Nnoko played just six minutes in the second half.

Clemson shot 50 percent from the field in the opening half.

The Tigers opened the game with a 9-0 run and led by seven points on two other occasions in the first half.  They also had a 12-2 lead.

The Seminoles briefly took the lead, 25-23, with 5:39 left in the half following Xavier Rathan-Mayes’ unconventional three-point play. But Roper hit a three-pointer shortly after that, and the Tigers kept the lead from there.

Clemson will travel to Syracuse on Tuesday for an 8 p.m. tip. Brownell is hoping the confidence from Saturday’s win will carry over as the Tigers continue a tough stretch.

“It just hopefully gives the guys a little bit of confidence,” he said. “The Alabama game hurt us a little in the confidence department, because we probably played a little better in some ways, some aspects of the game, then it showed. We just had a tough night shooting with the ball and we were still in a position to win it there at the end, and I think that took a little wind out of our sails to be honest.

“So it was just good to gut one out in a tight game, one or two possession game, especially when they tied it as you mentioned. It could have gone either way, momentum was shifting towards them a little bit, and we still bounced back and made plays on both ends to win the game.”