BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell heads to Rock Hill, S.C. to meet Winthrop Saturday. Tip from Winthrop Coliseum is set for 2:00 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN+.
LAST TIME OUT
- In a game with 14 lead changes and eight ties, Campbell edged USC Upstate 51-49
- Senior forward Brittany Staves scored a career-high 18 points and hit a go-ahead lay-up with 51.1 seconds remaining
- Staves, who scored eight in the fourth quarter alone, made 7-of-16 shots and pulled down six rebounds
- Gianni Boone added 12 points and four boards while Christabel Ezumah added four points and a game-high 11 rebounds. Audrey Fuller finished with six points, four rebounds and three steals
- The Camels forced 21 turnovers and held Upstate to 36.6 percent shooting (15-41) from the field and 21.4 percent (3-14) from three
SERIES HISTORY
- Campbell leads the all-time series against Winthrop 36-11
- Campbell won both matchups last season by a combined 66 points
- The Camels have won the past eight matchups and 13 of the past 14 overall
- Head coach Ronny Fisher is 12-1 against the Eagles with Campbell
SCOUTING THE EAGLES
- Winthrop enters Saturday's matchup with a 3-12 record overall and a 1-3 mark in Big South play, earning a 69-44 win over Longwood last week
- Have only played eight players this season with all averaging more than 14 minutes per game
- UNCW grad transfer and forward Paige Powell leads the Eagles averaging 10.7 points and 7.1 boards
- Senior guard and UMass Lowell transfer Shamyjha Price is averaging 10.3 points
- Picked to finish 9th in the Big South preseason poll
- Led by third year head coach Semeka Randall Lay
A WIN ON WEDNESDAY WOULD...
- Be the 781st win in program history (780-587)
- Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 226th career win (225-212)
- Be Fisher's 129th win at Campbell (128-68)
DE-FENSE, DE-FENSE
- Campbell ranks No. 6 nationally in scoring defense, holding foes to an average of 51.4 points per game
- The Camels also rank No. 6 in field goal percentage defense, holding teams to shoot 33.4 percent from the field and rank No. 35 in three-point field goal percentage defense, limiting teams to shoot 26.5 percent from behind the arc
- Campbell also ranks No. 27 nationally with 29.3 defensive rebounds per game and No. 89 with a rebound margin of 8.9
BOONE BOOMIN'
- Freshman guard Gianni Boone has been a top option for the CU offense this season
- Boone has scored in double-figures a team-high nine times this season including eight of her past nine game
- 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
BLOCK PARTY
- Campbell ranks No. 65 nationally and leads the Big South averaging 4.1 blocks per game
- Christabel Ezumah ranks No. 26 averaging 2.06 blocks per game with 33 total blocks on the year
- Overall, eight different Camels have recorded at least one block or more
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 225 wins overall including 140 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)