Camels head to Charleston Southern Wednesday

BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell looks to end its three-game skid in a 6 p.m. tip at Charleston Southern Wednesday.

LAST TIME OUT

Alasia Smith scored 17 points and Gardner-Webb defeated Campbell 63-50 Saturday afternoon at Gore Arena
Layken Cox scored 14 while Jhessyka Williams and Ki'Ari Cain each added 12 for the Runnin' Bulldogs (22-4, 14-0) who extended their winning streak to 14 games and clinched a share of the conference regular season title
Christabel Ezumah led all scorers with 20 points while adding 13 rebounds and a career-high three assists for the Camels (13-12, 8-6)
Gardner-Webb led 30-27 at halftime but pulled away in the third quarter, outscoring the Camels 15-2 over the final 6:06 in the period
Campbell shot 39.1 percent (18-of-46) from the field, 26.7 percent from three (4-of-15) and converted 10-of-15 free throws while Gardner-Webb made 46.3 percent (25-54) from the floor and 6-of-17 threes

SERIES HISTORY

Campbell leads the all-time series, 41-6
Campbell earned a 63-46 victory at home in the first matchup this season. Christabel Ezumah led all scorers with 18 points in a game the Camels never trailed and led by as many as 21
The Camels have won 10 straight in the series, last falling to the Buccaneers in 2018
Campbell is 12-2 against the Buccaneers in the Ronny Fisher era

SCOUTING THE BUCCANEERS

Charleston Southern owns a 4-21 record overall and a 2-12 record in conference play
Freshman guard Catherine Alben leads the team averaging 9.7 points followed by redshirt junior forward Kennedi Jackson who averages 9.1 points
Picked to finish last in the Big South preseason poll
Led by second year head coach Clarisse Garcia

A WIN ON WEDNESDAY WOULD...

CHRISTABEL'S DOUBLE-DOUBLES

Christabel Ezumah has recorded double-doubles in three of the past four games
Ezumah recorded a 16 point-15 rebound double-double in Campbell's win over USC Upstate (Feb. 1)
She then totaled 14 points and a career-high 16 boards against Longwood (Feb. 4)
Last time out against Gardner-Webb she tied her career-high with 20 points and added 13 boards
Overall, Ezumah has six double-doubles this year

NATIONALLY RANKED DEFENSE

Campbell ranks No. 4 nationally in scoring defense, holding foes to an average of 52.2 points per game
The Camels also rank No. 8 in field goal percentage defense, holding teams to shoot 34.6 percent from the field and rank No. 26 in three-point field goal percentage defense, limiting teams to shoot 27.0 percent from behind the arc
Additionally, the Camels rank No. 50 nationally with 40.3 rebounds per game, No. 16 with a rebound margin of 8.3 and No. 49 averaging 4.3 blocks per game

EARLY SEASON BIG SOUTH SUCCESS

Including this season and in each of the past three seasons, Campbell has started conference play with a 6-2 record or better

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 13 times
The Washington, D.C. native scored a career-high 20 points against Cleveland State and previously scored 16 points against Virginia

BLOCK PARTY

Campbell ranks No. 49 nationally and leads the Big South averaging 4.3 blocks per game
Christabel Ezumah leads the Big South and ranks No. 24 nationally averaging 1.96 blocks per game with 49 total blocks on the year
Overall, nine different Camels have recorded at least one block or more

ADVANTAGE IN THE CREEK

Under head coach Ronny Fisher, Campbell has compiled a 91-29 (.774) record at home including a 41-12 (.813) mark over the past four seasons
Over the past seven seasons Campbell has held foes to 49.4 points per game and outscored its opponents by an average of 12.0 points when playing inside Gore Arena
Since the 2016-17 season, the Camels have held foes to 40 points or less 25 times at home

SATURDAY IS THE NEW HUMP DAY

Campbell owns a 7-2 record this season in games played on Saturday compared to a 3-6 record on Wednesday (Hump Day)

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 229 wins overall including 144 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)

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