CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – Campbellsville men's basketball will play their first game in the Powell Athletic Center in the month of November Tuesday night as they host Alice Lloyd College.
 
The game is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. ET and the game will serve as Stroke Awareness Night for Tiger basketball.
 
Including in Stroke Awareness Night will be tables in the Powell Athletic Center lobby with nurses checking blood pressure and sharing information about strokes, free t-shirts will be handed out to the first 100 people to arrive, both CU and Alice Lloyd will wear t-shirts during pre-game warm-ups.


LAST TIME OUT
Five Tigers scored in double figures and Campbellsville used a big 25-3 run in the second half to distance itself from Lindenwood-Belleville in a 90-66 win on Saturday afternoon.
 
Stephaun Adams led the Tigers (4-0) with 18 points, while Andrew Smith had 17 in his Tiger debut after battling early seasoning injuries. Hagen Tyler had 14, while Ronald Taylor had 13 and Deion Evans had 12.
 
Evans also led the Tigers with 15 rebounds – a career-high and his first double-double in his career.
 
Tyler's 14 moves him into ninth place in the all-time scoring for CU basketball. He passes Steve Bugg and sits just behind one of the purest shooters in CU history, Marcio Kardosh.
 
SCOUTING ALICE LLOYD
The Eagles have started their season 1-2 with losses against Reinhardt and Milligan and their win coming against Warren Wilson. ALC averages the exact same points per game as Campbellsville with 95-per-game and their leading scorer Blake Smith averaging 22 points-per-game.
 
SEASON OPENING STREAK
CU has started the 2018-19 season on a four-game winning streak. They have accomplished that feat for the second-straight season as they will look to start the season with their longest winning streak since the 2014-15 season when they started with a streak of six-straight.
 
DOMINANT FRONT COURT TRIO
Last Saturday marked the return of center Andrew Smith to the Tiger lineup where the big man recorded 17 points and eight rebounds. In his three-game absence, forwards Deion Evans and Joan Duran were capable in carrying the rebounding and inside scoring load, where each have two double-doubles on the season. Duran has come up with big moments as a newcomer recording a game-winning tip-in against Voorhees and his two double-doubles. Evans has already recorded a number of career-highs this season with his last two games, his double-double games, earning him career-highs in rebounds, first with 11 against Point then 15 against Lindenwood-Belleville.
 
TYLER MOVING ON UP
Senior Guard Hagen Tyler currently has 1,428 points scored in his CU career, good for ninth place all time in program history. entered the top-10 in scoring all-time in CU history in the season opener against Kentucky Christian. Tyler passed Jeff Gumm in that game. On Nov. 10 against Lindenwood-Belleville, Hagen once again moved up on the list to ninth, passing Steve Bugg.
 
START OF THE HOME STAND
Beginning with their game against Alice Lloyd, (Nov. 13), the Tigers will begin a seven-game home stand that will end with their game on Dec. 1 against Central Pennsylvanis College. The home stand will include two back-to-back games over the next two weekends when they host Oakwood University and Philander Smith College for the Lou Cunningham Classic on Nov. 16-17 and then hosting Berkeley College and Allen University for the Campbellsville Classic on Nov. 23-24.
 
QUALITY EARLY IMPRESSION
One of the eight newcomers to the Tiger roster leads the team in key categories early on in the 2018-19 season. Stephaun Adams leads the team in points per game with 19.8 and total assists with 22, proving to be able to score and setup his teammate to do the same.
 
THE KING OF KINGS
Sophomore guard Jacob King had himself a day Nov. 3 against Point, scoring a  career-high 29 points to lead the way for CU. He also put up career highs in field goals (11) and three pointers made (7) as the Louisville, Ky. native had one of the best shooting nights of his young CU career. 24 of King's 29 points came in the second half, propelling the Tigers to their 125-97 win.
 
NEARING THE TOP 25
CU's Tigers begin this season exactly where they ended last season in the NAIA Coaches Poll, receiving votes. Campbellsville earned 20 points in the preseason poll, released on Oct. 23, with only three teams outside of the top-25 receiving more votes than the Tigers. CU will hope to break into the top-25 within the first in-season poll much like they did last year when they went 10-1 to move into the 21st spot.
 
HOME GAMES ON CU SPORTS NETWORK
All Tiger basketball home games will be streamed on the CU Sports Network on campbellsvilletigers.com as well as the home games in the Mid-South Conference schedule being aired on WLCU-TV. Even if anyone won't be able to make it out to the Powell Athletic Center for CU home games, you can watch the Tigers play all of their home games for free on our athletics website. New this season on the CU Sports Network will be the inclusion of four-camera broadcasts as we attempt to bring a more in-depth, professional broadcast feel to basketball games during the 2018-19 season.
 
DEEP MID-SOUTH CONFERENCE
Though the Tigers have the 28th most points in the NAIA coaches poll, four Mid-South Conference teams rank ahead of them in the preseason. Campbellsville was also picked to tie for fourth in the MSC by the Mid-South coaches in their preseason poll, tying with Lindsey Wilson with 29 points and behind Georgetown (47), Pikeville (45) and Cumberlands (34). The three teams ahead of CU and Lindsey Wilson are also all in the top 25 in the NAIA to start the season as Georgetown is ranked 4th, Pikeville is ranked 8th, Cumberlands is ranked 16th and Lindsey Wilson barely sneaked into the top 25 at 25th.
 
TOURNAMENT SEASON
Early season college basketball means tournaments, both on the road and at home for the Tigers. CU will host two tournaments in November in the Lou Cunningham Classic (Nov. 16-17) and Campbellsville Classic (Nov. 23-24) and also went on the road to play in the Faulkner Classic (Nov. 2-3).
 
Up Next
CU will continue the home stand this weekend with their first of back-to-back weekend tournaments in the Lou Cunningham Classic against Oakwood University and Philander Smith College.