After a 93-62 loss to North Carolina on Saturday, N.C. State travels to No. 24 Clemson with a great deal more to worry about. Even after a pileup of injuries in the backcourt, the poor weekend performance has the Pack looking at different options at the guard positions.

“I’m looking at a number of positions,” Wolfpack coach Sidney Lowe said. “Not just point guard, but different positions.”

However, as of Monday morning, Lowe said he “hadn’t made any decisions yet.”

Concerns about ball handling arose when starting point guard Farnold Degand was injured in the game against Cincinnati. Since then, the team has split time at the point, with freshman Javier Gonzalez starting and sophomore Marques Johnson contributing substantial minutes.

Another problem the Pack will have to overcome is the shooting woes that have plagued it recently. The team has shot 36.7 percent from the field in the last two games.

“We just have to learn to put the ball in the hole when we’re around the basket,” junior guard Courtney Fells said.

Other teams have noticed the scoring troubles of the Pack as well. Clemson was one of them.

“Obviously, they didn’t play well against North Carolina,” Clemson coach Oliver Purnell said. “They just couldn’t get the ball in the basket in the lane; they really shot poorly.”

Of course, the Pack has strengths for the Tigers to worry about as well. Purnell said he had plenty of concerns about State’s team.

“This is a very good basketball team that loves to take the ball inside,” Purnell said. “They’ve got a couple of very good low post options when you look at Hickson and McCauley, who are excellent post players and good passers, and we’re very concerned about that.”

Clemson is coming off a double-overtime win against Florida State, but had previously lost two consecutive home games, to North Carolina and Charlotte, respectively.

“They played a little harder that we did,” Purnell said of the loss to Charlotte. “I was very disappointed in how hard we played and the execution of our game plan, particularly down the stretch.”

The Pack’s players view the matchup as an opportunity for them to leave the previous game behind.

“This loss [Saturday] was one loss,” Fells, who is recovering from an ankle injury, said.

Junior Ben McCauley expressed a similar assessment of the loss.

“Any time you lose by 30 points, you think and you question yourself, like, ‘What’s going on here? We need to do something different,'” he said. “I think if we go down there and play well, we’ll redeem ourselves.”

Deputy Sports Editor Langdon Morris contributed to this story.