BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Campbell continues Big South Conference play Saturday with a 5:30 p.m. tip at Charleston Southern.
 
The Camels (7-12, 2-5) are coming off a 63-55 loss Wednesday vs. Radford. Devon Dunn and Anthony Dell'Orso led CU with 18 points and Ricky Clemons added 10 plus 5 assists, but Raford finished with a 21-2 edge in second-chance points.
 
Charleston Southern (7-11, 3-4) dropped a 73-63 decision to UNC Asheville Wednesday.  Tahlik Chavez came off the bench to score 22 points, while RJ Johnson, Claudell Harris, Jr., and Kalib Clinton added 9 each.
 
NOTES:

• Campbell stands 2-6 in true road games (1-2 at Big South foes).  Charleston Southern is 5-4 at home overall, 2-2 vs. the Big South at the CSU Field House.
• Fifth-year senior Ricky Clemons leads the Camels - and ranks 8th in the Big South Conference - with a 12.95 scoring average.  Anthony Dell'Orso (10.2) is the third-leading freshman scorer in the Big South.
• Sophomore guard Claudell Harris, Jr. leads CSU and stands 3rd in the conference with an 18.4 scoring average.  In league play, he tops the Big South with a 20.57 average.
• Campbell owns a 30-28 edge in the all-time series with the Bucs, including a 12-7 advantage since Campbell re-joined the Big South Conference in 2011-12.  The Camels have won 4-straight, 5 of the last 6 and 8 of the last 11 games against Charleston Southern.
• Last year, in the only meeting between the teams, Jordan Whitfield scored 18 points, Cedric Henerson, Jr. added 16 and Ricky Clemons 13 to lead Campbell to a 67-52 win at Gore Arena.  The Camels shot 56 percent from the floor and never trailed.  Tahlik Chavez led Charleston Southern with 17 points, including 5-of-10 from three-point range.
• With 3 victories over its first seven Big South games, CSU has already equaled the program's number of league wins over the last 2 seasons.  Charleston Southern finished 2-15 in the conference in 2020-21 and 1-15 in '21-22.
• Buc sophomore Claudell Harris was named Big South player of the week Monday after
• back-to-back 30-point outings against High Point (34) and Radford (31).  He is averaging a league-leading 20.57 points in conference games.
• Barclay Radebaugh, now in his 18th season at Charleston Southern, ranks 9th in all-time Big South coaching wins (87).  With 71 career Big South wins, Campbell's 10th-year head coach Kevin McGeehan is just four shy of moving into a tie for 10th place on the league's all-time victories list.
• The CSU Field House holds the distinction of being the 2nd-smallest capacity (881) home court in the Division I ranks (USC Upstate's Hodge Center seats 833).  Campbell's old venue -- Carter Gym -- was the country's smallest men's setting (947 seats) before CSU reconfigured its building and Upstate joined D1.  CU moved into the 3,095-seat Gore Arena before the 2008-09 season.
• Campbell and Charleston Southern have met twice in Big South Championship games.  The Bucs claimed the 1987 final 64-63 at Savannah, Ga. Campbell won the 1992 title game 67-53 to secure its first NCAA tournament berth.
• Along with Radford, Winthrop and UNC Asheville, Campbell and Charleston Southern are original members of the Big South Conference since league play began in 1985-86.  Campbell was a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference from 1994-2011.
• Notable Charleston Southern alumni include U.S. Senator Tim Scott, 1992 Olympic triple jump silver medalist Charlie Simpkins, plus MLB pitchers Bobby Parnell (2008-16) and Tyler Thornburg (2012-20).
• Following Saturday's game, the Camels travel to High Point next Wednesday (Jan. 25).