BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Winners of five of its last six, Campbell (10-7, 5-1) heads to Radford (7-10, 3-3) Wednesday. Tip from the Dedmon Center is set for 7:00 p.m. on ESPN+.
LAST TIME OUT
- Audrey Fuller scored a career-high 20 points, including 17 in the second half, as Campbell defeated Winthrop 53-40 last Saturday in Rock Hill, S.C.
- Fuller and Erika Joseph each knocked down a pair of 3-pointers as part of a 14-0 run to open the fourth quarter. The Camels extended its lead to as many as 18 on Fuller's sixth 3-pointer with 1:13 remaining
- Winthrop, which led by as many as seven and maintained a lead for over 23 minutes, had five turnovers and made only 3-of-12 shots in the fourth
- Brittany Staves added nine points, nine rebounds and six assists while Christabel Ezumah added seven points and eight rebounds for the Camels who have won five of their last six games
- The Camels scored 16 points off 15 turnovers and held Winthrop to 28.1 percent (16-57) shooting from the field and 26.7 percent (4-15) shooting from behind the arc
SERIES HISTORY
- Radford leads the all-time series, 31-15
- Campbell has won each of the past two matchups including a 58-41 win last season
- Head coach Ronny Fisher is 3-9 against the Highlanders with Campbell
SCOUTING THE HIGHLANDERS
- Radford owns a 7-10 record overall and a 3-3 mark in Big South play, featuring wins over UNC Asheville, Winthrop and Charleston Southern
- Freshman guard Ashlyn Traylor leads the Highlanders averaging 12.6 points per game while senior forward Rachel LaLonde is averaging 9.9 points and a team-high 8.4 boards
- Picked to finish 4th in the Big South preseason poll
- Led by 10th-year head coach Mike McGuire
A WIN ON WEDNESDAY WOULD...
- Be the 782nd win in program history (781-587)
- Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 227th career win (226-212)
- Be Fisher's 130th win at Campbell (129-68)
CAREER GAMES FOR THE WIN
- Brittany Staves and Audrey Fuller each scored career-highs to lead Campbell to a pair of wins over USC Upstate and Winthrop
- Staves scored a career-best 18 points and made the go-ahead layup with 51.1 second remaining in a 51-49 win over USC Upstate on Jan. 11
- In the next game at Winthrop, Fuller scored a career-high 20 points on six 3-pointers to lead Campbell past the Eagles, 53-40
NATIONALLY RANKED DEFENSE
- Campbell ranks No. 5 nationally in scoring defense, holding foes to an average of 50.7 points per game
- The Camels also rank No. 5 in field goal percentage defense, holding teams to shoot 33.1 percent from the field and rank No. 28 in three-point field goal percentage defense, limiting teams to shoot 26.5 percent from behind the arc
- Additionally, the Camels rank No. 34 nationally with 41.8 rebounds per game, No. 20 with a rebound margin of 9.2 and No. 58 averaging 4.2 blocks per game
BIG SOUTH SUCCESS
- Campbell is off to another top start to Big South play this season with a 5-1 conference record
- The Camels have won five of their last six games, falling only to league-leaders Gardner-Webb
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 10 times this season including eight of her past 10 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
BLOCK PARTY
- Campbell ranks No. 58 nationally and leads the Big South averaging 4.2 blocks per game
- Christabel Ezumah ranks No. 24 averaging 2.06 blocks per game with 35 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 226 wins overall including 141 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)