Men's Basketball vs. Indiana University Southeast

Indiana Southeast IUS 6-2

Campbellsville CAMP 5-3

Indiana Southeast IUS

6-2

Final

Nov. 22, 2019

Campbellsville CAMP

5-3

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	OT 1	F
Indiana Southeast IUS	37	34	8	79
Campbellsville CAMP	34	37	10	81

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | 11/22/2019 10:59:00 PM | CU Athletics

Simmons plays hero as the Tigers come away with a 81-79 win over IU Southeast

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CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — David Simmons played hero not once but twice on Friday night as the final time was a game-winning tip-in in overtime for Campbellsville men's basketball to come back and beat Indiana University Southeast, 81-79.

Simmons finished with a career-high 27 points and none were bigger than the two he scored at the end of regulation and the game winner in OT. He picked up a miss with 1.1 seconds left in the second half and his layup tied it at 71-all.

The Tigers led by two, 79-77, with 25 seconds left but a bucket by the Grenadiers tied it up at 79 with 18 seconds left and the Tigers had the ball. After a coach Brent Vernon timeout, Simmons picked up another offensive rebound – his fifth total board of the night – and sent the Tigers to a 5-3 record.

In the first half, it was all Campbellsville for the first 13 minutes, but IU Southeast started to chip away and the Tigers went cold. Alston Davis hit the third 3-pointer of the first half with 7:00 to go in the opening stanza, 25-16.

Then it was a 16-7 run for the Grenadiers to get them back into it. The Tigers didn't hit another 3 until the 4:30 mark in the second half and that was the spark it needed by Sam Weining.

Overall, CU hit only 4-of-22 from deep while IU Southeast was on fire hitting 12 3-pointers.

The Grenadiers ended up leading by three points at halftime, 37-34.

In the second half, CU took a 38-37 lead after two Justin Tucker free throws then the Grenadiers took control and their lead ballooned to six, 54-48, with 13:47 left. Campbellsville started to work the lead down and a Ronald Taylor layup after a steal going coast-to-coast tied it at 60-all with 8:00 left.

He finished with a new career-high 23 points, including 8-of-10 from the free throw line and matching Taiveyhon Mason with a team-high nine rebounds.

But IU Southeast came out of the timeout with a 6-1 run to lead 66-61 just four minutes later. Campbellsville never led until a Taylor layup with 1:55 left, 69-68, but CU was only about to get one more bucket – the final tip-in by Simmons in regulation.

The OT period saw Campbellsville's Sam Weining hit a 3-pointer and the Tigers never trailed the rest of the way. IU Southeast did tie the game at 74-all and 79-all before the Simmons game-winner.

Mason sealed the game with a steal as IU Southeast was attempting to get a last-second half court jumper for the win.

Campbellsville returns on Saturday at 4 p.m. ET for the finale of the Lou Cunningham Classic against Marian University. The Knights defeated Lindsey Wilson College, 103-78, earlier on Friday.

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