BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Coming off a nine-day break from competition for final exams, Campbell University travels to the Virginia Military Institute Tuesday to face the nation's highest-scoring team for the second time this year.

The Fighting Camels (2-3) are coming off a 79-66 loss Nov. 29 at Appalachian State. Since a 97-92 win at Campbell on Nov. 24, VMI has claimed two of three games, including victories over Winthrop (92-74) and Saturday at UNC Asheville (114-105).

Campbell enters Tuesday's game leading the Atlantic Sun Conference in scoring (79.2) and field goal percentage (.488). CU has shot better than 50 percent from the floor in each of its first 3 games at the John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center, but has hit just 36 percent from the field in its two road games, losses at East Carolina at Appalachian.

Tuesday's contest will air on WCLN 107.3 FM and on-line at www.GoCamels.com.

VMI (6-2, 2-0 Big South) leads the country in scoring (103.6), has hit the 90-point barrier seven times in eight games, including four 100-point efforts. The Keydets also topped the NCAA in scoring the last two years.

Campbell (2-3, 0-0 A-Sun) is in the midst of a four-game stretch of road games and is still searching for its first victory away from the John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center / Gilbert Craig Gore Arena. Following Tuesday's date at VMI, the Camels open Atlantic Sun Conference play with a two-game swing at Florida Gulf Coast (Saturday) and Stetson (Monday, Dec. 15).

A balanced Campbell attack includes eight different players who have scored in double figures at least once through the first five games. CU leads the league in assists (20.2), stands second in team free throw shooting (.727) and assist/turnover ratio (1.07), is third in 3-point accuracy (.342) and steals (9.2).

Junior forward Jonathan Rodriguez and Santa Clara's John Bryant are the only two players in the country to have at least tied for the team lead in both scoring and rebounding in every team game this season. Rodriguez is averaging 22.0 points per game (tops in the A-Sun), while ranking second in the league in rebounds (9.4), third in field goal percentage (.562) and seventh in free throw shooting (.800).

Junior center-forward Kyle Vejraska has moved into a tie for 10th place on Campbell's career Division I era (since 1977-78) list for blocked shots. Vejraska matched his career high with three rejections at Appalachian State and now has 55 in 66 career games.

Junard Hartley rates second among league leaders in assist/turnover ratio (1.85) and third in assists average (4.8).

VMI hit 19 three-point field goals and held off a late rally Nov. 24 to hand Campbell a 97-92 defeat at Gore Arena. Travis Holmes and Keith Gabriel led five VMI players in double digits with 22 points apiece. Chavis Holmes added 20, while Michael Sparks finished with 14 and Austin Kenon 10.

Jonathan Rodriguez led Campbell with a game-high 23 points, plus 14 rebounds for his 30th career double-double. Lorne Merthie scored 14 for the second-straight outing, while William Kossangue added 10 – all in the second half on 5-of-8 shooting. Kyle Vejraska chipped in 10 points and nine rebounds.

The Keydets, who opened the year with a 111-103 win at Kentucky, built a 17-point lead (87-70) with 7:29 remaining thanks to a 12-4 run. However, the Camels answered with a 22-6 run to pull within 93-92 on Kyle Vejraska's jumper with 54 seconds to play.

Campbell stands 16-20 vs. Big South Conference teams since the Camels left the Big South and joined the Atlantic Sun Conference in 1994. CU is just 2-13 in games played on opponents' home floors during that span. Sixth-year Camel head coach Robbie Laing's teams own a 5-8 record vs. Big South members.

CU's two largest victory margins all-time against Division I opponents have both come against Big South Conference members. CU defeated Augusta 99-62 on Feb. 6, 1989 when both schools were members of the Big South, then matched that 37-point win gap on Nov. 22 vs. UNC Asheville (94-57).

If VMI leads the nation in scoring again this year (103.6 ppg through 8 contests), the Keydets would join only two other teams to top the country for 3-straight years -- Furman (1953-55) and Loyola Marymount (1988-90).

VMI seniors Chavis (1545) and Travis (1383) Holmes rank 4th all-time among NCAA scoring leaders for twins with 2928 points, behind only Johnny & Eddie O'Brien (3263 at Seattle from 1951-53), Ramon & Damon Williams (3252, VMI, 1987-90) and Horace & Harvey Grant (3231, Clemson/Oklahoma, 1984-88). The Holmes brothers are already ahead of Indiana's Tom & Dick Van Arsdale (2492) from 1963-65).

CU has lost its last six road games, including a 0-2 record on opponents' home floors this year, dating to a 78-74 OT victory Feb. 2, 2008 at North Florida.