Campbellsville couldn't overcome a red-hot shooting performance by NCAA Samford over the first nine minutes of an exhibition basketball game in Birmingham, Alabama tonight and lost 73-54.

Samford made 9 of their first 10 shots from the floor and built a 17 point lead in the first half, and extended that to 26 points midway through the final frame.

"There's just no way to prepare for what they do offensively and defensively," said CU Head Coach Keith Adkins after the game.  "They run such a different style of offense and some tricky defenses that are just hard to reproduce in practice," he added.

Campbellsville was led by the 11 point performance of Aaron Wyatt and opens the home portion of the 2008 season on Saturday against Evangel.  The Tigers are 1-2 overall.