BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell (6-6, 1-0) heads to Longwood (1-11, 0-1) Saturday in its first Big South road test of the season. Tip-off from Willett Hall is set for 2:00 p.m. on ESPN+.
LAST TIME OUT
- Campbell opened Big South play with a 61-53 win over Presbyterian
- The Camels outscored the Blue Hose 27-11 in the third quarter as five different players knocked down a three to build a 22 point lead
- Presbyterian trimmed the lead to as few as four points with a little over two minutes to go, but went 0-4 from the field and committed two turnovers down the stretch to end the game
- Brittany Staves led the team with 14 points while Svenia Nurenberg added 12 points, seven rebounds and four assists
SERIES HISTORY
- Campbell leads the all-time series against Longwood 23-7
- The Camels won both regular season matchups last season but fell to the Lancers in the Big South Championship final
- CU owns a 7-5 record when playing in Farmville, but have won the last three matchups at Willett Hall
- Coach Fisher is 11-3 against Longwood as head coach of the Camels
SCOUTING THE LANCERS
- Longwood went 1-10 during non-conference play, earning its lone win against Ohio
- The Lancers began Big South Thursday falling 79-50 at High Point
- Redshirt-junior guard Adriana Shipp-Davis leads the Lancers averaging 11.2 points and 4.9 rebounds while senior guard Anne-Hamilton LeRoy averages 10.7 points
- Return seven of 13 players from last year's Big South Championship squad after former head coach Rebecca Tillett departed for the head job at Saint Louis
- Picked to finish sixth in the Big South preseason poll
- Led by first year head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery
A WIN ON SATURDAY WOULD...
- Be the 778th win in program history (777-586)
- Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 223rd career win (222-211)
- Be Fisher's 126th win at Campbell (125-67)
- Be Fisher's third-straight 2-0 start in Big South play
DE-FENSE, DE-FENSE
- Campbell ranks No. 8 nationally in scoring defense, holding foes to an average of 51.9 points per game this season
- The Camels also rank No. 7 in field goal percentage defense, limiting teams to shoot 33.0 percent from the field and rank No. 49 holding teams to 26.5% shooting on threes
BLOCK PARTY
- Campbell ranks No. 25 nationally averaging 5.0 blocks per game
- Christabel Ezumah ranks No. 11 averaging 2.55 blocks per game and No. 13 with 28 total blocks this season
- Overall, eight different Camels have recorded at least one block or more
BOONE BOOMIN'
- Freshman guard Gianni Boone has been a top option for the CU offense during the non-conference slate
- Boone has scored in double-figures a team-high seven times this season including five-straight games
- The Washington, D.C. native scored a career-high 20 points against Cleveland State and previously scored 16 points against Virginia and 19 against William Peace
HEAD COACH RONNY FISHER
- A three-time Big South Coach of the Year and the winningest active coach in the conference, Ronny Fisher is in his seventh season at the helm of Campbell University women's basketball
- Over the previous six seasons Campbell has won 119 games for an average of nearly 20 wins per season
- As the current longest-tenured Big South coach in his 15th season, Fisher leads all active coaches in the conference with 222 wins overall including 137 in the Big South
- Under Fisher, the Camels won the 2019-20 and 2021-22 Big South regular season titles and finished as Big South tournament runner-up in 2019, 2021 and 2022
- Fisher has also led Campbell to its first-ever WNIT berth in 2021-22 along with two other postseason appearances in the WBI. He helped the Camels claim their first ever postseason win in the 2019 WBI
- Previously served as head coach at Presbyterian (2008-16)