GEORGETOWN, Ky. – Campbellsville's second half rally was erased by a 15-3 Georgetown run to close the game, as the top-ranked CU Tigers were upset Thursday by No. 17 Georgetown College, 88-76.

"There's something going wrong for us right now in first halves. Call it aggressiveness, not being ready to play, me not pressing the right buttons. Whatever it may be, we're not getting it done in the first 20 minutes of games, and we've got to get that changed, because you can't expect to beat good teams that have double figure leads in the last 20 minutes," CU head coach Keith Adkins said. 

"This was one of those nights it just wasn't meant to be … We've got to find something better offensively, and give Georgetown some credit. They were pretty good offensively, but on defense, they wore us into a lot of things we didn't want to do."

Trailing by 13 with 14 minutes to play, CU slowly whittled the margin down to a two-possession game, 62-58, on an and-one play by Eric Gaines with 8:27 to play. Gaines later knocked down two more free throws to pull within a point, 66-65, setting up Darius Clement steal and D'Von Campbell layup to give Campbellsville its first lead, 67-66, in more than 17 minutes of action. 

Campbell was fouled on the play, but missed the free throw to extend the lead, and Georgetown's Tony Kimbro answered with a 3 on the other end – a series of events symbolic of the entire game. 

CU connected only 12 of 27 times from the charity stripe (44.4 percent), while Georgetown knocked down 85 percent, including all 13 in the second half.

"Our free throws weren't good enough. We had the lead with five minutes to go and missed fifteen free throws (in the game). That's not going to cut it," CU head coach Keith Adkins said. "I don't know if this was completely the part of the game that made us lose, but it had its hand in it … We all had our hands in this."

Kimbro later hit another 3 with 1:53 to play, which served as the dagger, making it once again a nine-point lead, 80-71. He then knocked down the first four of eight GC free throws to close the game.

Kimbro, a 6-foot-6 forward from Louisville entered the game with a career-high off 11 points and only nine made 3-pointers this season. He was a perfect 6-of-6 from beyond the arc and led all players with 26 points to lead Georgetown's upset charge. 

"Tony Kimbro was on me. It was game planning," Adkins said. "A guy that's hit nine 3s in 18 games of 35 shots, we played the percentages, and he bit us."

CU's rally was also do in part to the absence of Georgetown's Noah Cottrill, who was sitting out after being injured. Cottrill, who scored 13 for GC, returned after the go-ahead CU layup and helped lockdown ?the visiting Tigers in the final five minutes.

In the first half, Campbellsville led early, but Georgetown hit consecutive 3-pointers to tie the game at 13 with 13:15 left in the first half. The host Tigers pushed in front and never looked back in the first half, as McWhorter dunked to make it a nine-point game, 37-26, with 3:15 to play in the half. Georgetown entered the half with a 39-30 lead.

Two of the Mid-South Conference's top post players, Georgetown's Deondre McWhorter and Campbellsville's Damontre Harris, battled in the paint and mirrored each others stats with 17 points and 11 rebounds each. McWhorter added three blocks and Harris had two, giving him 75 for the season.

Campbell finished with 17 points for CU and Clement had 11, including three 3s. 

Georgetown scored 19 points off the bench, including 13 by Corey Washburn. 

The loss snaps the second-longest win streak in program history at 13 games. 

"You never want it to happen, but it was going to be tremendously difficult to run the table the last 10 games. What we now have to be careful of now is one loss can become two or three in a hurry, and at the wrong time of the year," Adkins said. "Saturday all of a sudden becomes huge, and a game we have to have."

Campbellsville (19-2, 6-1 MSC) will remain on the road in the Mid-South Conference when it travels to Shawnee State University (7-10, 1-6) on Saturday for a 4 p.m. tipoff. SSU beat St. Catharine Thursday, 82-76, for its first conference win of the season.

"I don't care if Shawnee State is a one win or a zero win team in the conference standings, they're a good basketball team. Jeff Hamilton does as good a job as anybody in the league," Adkins said. "It's tough luck tonight, but instead of using this as a negative, we'll use this as motivation to go to Portsmouth and get one Saturday."