BUIES CREEK, N.C. – With victories in four of the last five games, Campbell returns home Saturday to host Longwood in a 2 p.m. tip-off at Gore Arena.
 
Chris Clemons' buzzer beater capped an 8-0 run over the last 19.2 seconds Wednesday and lifted the Camels (12-9, 5-2) to a 68-67 win at Big South leader Radford.  The Highlanders led by 15 with 9:05 remaining, but missed four free throws to set up Clemons' late heroics.
 
Clemons scored 39 points - 28 in the second half - Cory Gensler and Andrew Eudy buried key 3-pointers in the last 1:14 and Clemons launched his 4th career game-winning bucket at the buzzer.  Ja'Cor Nelson pulled down a career-best 9 rebounds, Gensler finished with 9 points on a trio of threes and Eudy added 7 assists for the Camels, who had only 2 turnovers in the final period.
 
Under the direction of 1st-year head coach Griff Aldrich, Longwood (13-11, 3-6) already has six more wins than the Lancers compiled in 2017-18.  However, Longwood has dropped 4 of its last 5, including Wednesday's 96-83 setback against Hampton in Farmville. Shabooty Phillips scored 25 points and JaShaun Smith added 20 for the Lancers, but Hampton shot 58 percent from the floor and led by as many as 23.
 

• Chris Clemons now stands 15th on the NCAA Division I all-time scoring list with 2,836 points in 118 career outings.  He leads the nation in scoring (28.8 ppg) and has extended his double-figure scoring streak to 103 games, the longest among all active players and fourth-best in D1 history.
• Longwood is just 4 wins shy of matching the program's Division I record for victories in a season (17), which the Lancers reached in 2008-09 as a D1 independent.
• Campbell stands 6-3 at home this year, 2-1 against Big South Conference foes.  Longwood is 4-7 in true road games this year, 1-3 at Big South foes.  The Lancers' league road win came Jan. 16 at Winthrop (75-61).
• The Camels and Lancers split a pair of games last year with each winning on their home floor.  In the last meeting between the two, Campbell claimed an 88-54 victory Feb. 10, 2018 at Gore Arena - the program's largest win margin (34) in a Big South game since a 99-62 (+37) victory over Augusta Feb. 6, 1989.  Chris Clemons scored 25 points, Andrew Eudy added 18, plus a career-high 8 assists, and Jordan Whitfield chipped in 11 for the Camels, who shot 57% from the floor and made 16-of-37 (.432) threes.
• Since winning at Winthrop on Jan. 16, Longwood has only once scored more than 64 points in the last 5 games - Thursday's 96-83 setback vs. Hampton.
• Overall, Longwood leads all Big South schools in field goal percentage defense (.399). Through 9 league games, Big South opponents are shooting a combined 42.1% vs. the Lancers, the 4th-best mark in the conference.
• Junior transfer guard Lorenzo "Shabooty" Phillips leads the Big South in free throw shooting (.867) and is 15th in scoring (13.9). Senior Isaiah Walton was averaging a team-best 17.8 points per game, but was dismissed from the team on Jan. 31.
• A native of Raleigh, N.C., Longwood junior forward JaShaun Smith played his high school ball at Garner and also at Legacy (S.C.) Charter.  He is averaging a career-best 10.4 points and is coming off a career-high 20-point outing vs. Hampton.
• The late Jerome Kersey, a 17-year (1984-2001) NBA veteran, was a two-time Division II All-American at Longwood from 1980-84.  He made two trips to the NBA finals with the Portland Trail Blazers (1990, 1992) and won an NBA title as a member of the 1999 San Antonio Spurs.
• Chris Clemons enters Saturday's game ranked 15th all-time among D1 scoring leaders, 14 points shy of No.-14 Larry Bird of Indiana State (2850 from 1976-79).  He is 36 points shy of No.-13 Tyler Hansbrough, who scored 2872 points in his North Carolina career from 2005-09).
• Campbell is off to its best 7-game start in Big South play since the 2011-12 and 2012-13 teams also opened 5-2 in league action.
• Campbell has recovered from double-digit deficits in the second half twice to win Big South road games.  The Camels trailed by 14 at Charleston Southern Jan. 19 before winning 73-72. On Jan. 30 at Radford, Campbell was down 54-39 with 9:05 left before rallying to win 68-67.
• In Big South games, the Camels lead the league in turnover margin (+4.4) and assist-turnover ratio (1.9), while ranking 2nd in assists (15.4) and free throw percentage (.778), and 3rd in 3s per game (10.1).  CU has committed and average of just 8.0 turnovers through 7 BSC contests, the lowest by 2.7 per game among conference members.  CU had a season-low 4 turnovers - just one in the second half - in its 77-73 win over Presbyterian on Jan. 24.  The Camels made only 2 turnovers in their 68-67 comeback win Wednesday (Jan. 30) at Radford.
• Against Big South foes, Andrew Eudy leads the league in assist-turnover ratio (3.8), is 2nd in blocks (1.4) and offensive rebounds (3.6), 3nd in rebounding (8.9), 5th in assists (4.9), 8th in FG% (.447) and 11th in scoring (15.7).
• Campbell stands 2nd among Big South schools in home attendance (1769 in 9 dates) and is averaging 2157 fans in 3 conference games.
• After a trip to High Point next Thursday (Feb. 7), the Camels return home for two-straight games – Feb. 9 vs. USC Upstate and Feb. 13 against Hampton.