CAMPBELLSVILLE Ky. – After two 20-plus point wins in the Lou Cunningham Classic, Campbellsville men's basketball looks to continue their undefeated start to the season as they host the Campbellsville Classic this Friday and Saturday against Berkeley College and Allen University.
 
Friday at 6 p.m. ET, the Tigers will host Berkeley at the Powell Athletic Center and Saturday at 4 p.m. they will host Allen. Both Berkeley and Allen will play University of the Cumberlands on the day they don't play CU and those games will go on prior to the Tigers' games on those days.
 
LAST TIME OUT
The Tigers wrapped up play at the Lou Cunningham Classic last Saturday with a 104-82 win over Philander Smith College. CU also collected an 86-60 win over Oakwood University to finish the tournament as the only 2-0 team on the weekend. Top performers from each game were Andrew Smith against Philander Smith with 28 points and 17 rebounds and Stephaun Adams led CU against Oakwood with 27 points.
 
SCOUTING BERKELEY
The Knights are 2-0 early on in the season with a 79-72 win over Rio Grande and a 121-117 double overtime win at West Virginia Tech. Guard Deylon Bovell leads BC in scoring averaging 20 points in their first two games as Ricardo Ayuso is not far behind averaging 19.5 points per game.
 
SCOUTING ALLEN
The Yellow Jackets are 2-5 on the season so far with a double overtime win against Wilberforce University and a win in their most recent game against Fayetteville State. Allen will play Cumberlands first on Friday before the CU/Berkeley game.
 
ADAMS WINS TIGERS' FIRST POTW
On Nov. 19 starting guard, Stephaun Adams was named the Mid-South Conference Player of the Week. Adams averaged 21.0 points, 6.3 rebounds and 7.0 assists in the three CU victories while leading the team in minutes played with 97 of a possible 120 minutes played. He also shot 45 percent from the field, 44 percent from three and was a perfect 6-for-6 on free throws in the three games.
 
EXACTLY HOW SMITH, DREW IT UP
It was a career day for the Tigers' 6-10 center from Johnson City, Tenn. as Andrew Smith recorded his first double-double of the 2018-19 season against Philander Smith on Nov. 17. Smith recorded career highs in points (28), rebounds (17) and field goals made (13) as the Tigers cruised their way to a 104-82 win.
 
CARRIED BY THE STARTERS
In the Tigers 104-82 win over Philander Smith, the third time CU broke 100, 98 points were scored by the starting combination of Jacob King (8), Stephaun Adams (25), Hagen Tyler (23), Deion Evans (14) and Andrew Smith (28). The highest total and percentage of points scored by and CU starting five this season while also producing the highest number of 20-point scorers in any game by the Tigers so far this year with the three 20-point games. Overall, the Tigers shot 59% in the game with a 45% mark from three pointers as well.
 
SEASON OPENING STREAK
CU has started the 2018-19 season on a seven-game winning streak. That is their longest winning streak to start a season in 20 years when they started with a streak of 19-straight in the 1998-98 season. That season, the Tigers finished 29-3 but did not make the NAIA tournament.
 
CATEGORY LEADERS
At the start of the week, Tigers are in the top-20 in the NAIA in seven key team categories in the first seven games of the 2018-19 season and in the top 10 in four of those categories. CU is ninth in three different categories, including field goal percentage (52.3%), three-point field goals made per game (11.3) and assist to turnover ratio (1.54) while also being 10th in assists per game (19.9). The Tigers also are tied for 16th in scoring offense per game (97.0), 17th in scoring margin (22.9) and tied for 18th in three-point field goal percentage (39.8%).
 
LEAVING NO DOUBT
Early on this season, CU has won six of their seven games by a margin of 22 or higher. After leading at halftime during every single one of their games, they have only had one game where the final result was in question. That game was their 70-69 win over Voorhees when they pulled out a late victory on a tip-in from Joan Duran.
 
TYLER MOVING ON UP
Senior Guard Hagen Tyler currently has 1,485 points scored in his CU career, good for ninth place all time in program history and three behind the next spot on the list. Hagen 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.
 
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 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 their seven-game home stand when they host East-West University next Tuesday. The Phantoms are a USCAA team who will be playing their 14th game against the Tigers.