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Campbell University

Christabel Ezumah
Laura Stroud

Women's Basketball

Camels travel to Presbyterian Saturday

BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell heads to Presbyterian Saturday for its final road game of the regular season in a 2 p.m. tip on ESPN3.

Campbell sits third in the Big South standings with a 9-6 mark in conference play while Presbyterian ranks T-fourth with a 7-8 record.

LAST TIME OUT

  • Brittany Staves scored a career high 22 points and Campbell cruised to a 75-48 win at Charleston Southern Wednesday at the Buccaneer Fieldhouse
  • Campbell (14-12, 9-6) never trailed and led by as many 37 to snap a three-game skid
  • After a slow start in which both teams combined for nine points in the first quarter, Campbell opened the game up with a 17-3 run in the second and doubled the Buccaneers (4-22, 2-13) up with a 28-14 score at the half. Charleston Southern never cut it to single digits thereafter
  • Despite only scoring six points in the first quarter, the Camels scored a Big South game season high in points, pouring in over 20 points in each of the remaining three quarters
  • The Camels made 49.1 percent (27-of-55) from the floor and 41.4 percent (12-29) from three while holding the Buccaneers to 25.5 percent (14-of-55) shooting including 2-of-13 made from range

SERIES HISTORY

  • Campbell leads the all-time series, 15-8
  • Campbell defeated the Blue Hose earlier this season, 61-53, behind double-figure efforts from Brittany Staves (14), Svenia Nurenberg (12) and Gianni Boone (11)
  • The Camels have won nine straight in the series, last falling to the Blue Hose in 2018
  • Each of the last three matchups at the Templeton Center have been close: Shy Tuelle scored a game-winning buzzer-beater layup to beat the Blue Hose 62-61 in the first matchup in 2021, and the next day iced the game with free throws to win 59-58 after getting fouled with less than a second left. Last season the Camels won 58-55 on a three-pointer by Faith Price with two seconds left
  • Former PC head coach Ronny Fisher is 10-1 against the Blue Hose as head coach of Campbell

SCOUTING THE BLUE HOSE

  • Presbyterian owns a 11-15 record overall and a 7-8 record in conference play
  • Fifth-year center Bryanna Brady leads the team averaging 13.4 points and 5.9 boards
  • Picked to finish seventh in the Big South preseason poll
  • Led by fifth year head coach Alaura Sharpe

A WIN ON SATURDAY WOULD...

  • Be the 786th win in program history (785-592)
  • Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 231st career win (230-217)
  • Be Coach Fisher's 134th win at Campbell (133-73)

BRITT'S CAREER NIGHT

  • Senior forward Brittany Staves scored a career-high 22 points on 8-of-11 shooting, including making 5-of-7 shots from three, in a 75-48 win over Charleston Southern
  • It marked the first 20+ point game of her career

CHRISTABEL'S DOUBLE-DOUBLES

  • Christabel Ezumah has recorded double-doubles in three of the past five 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 52.0 points per game
  • The Camels also rank No. 6 in field goal percentage defense, holding teams to shoot 34.3 percent from the field and rank No. 21 in three-point  field goal percentage defense, limiting teams to shoot 26.6 percent from behind the arc
  • Additionally, the Camels rank No. 46 nationally with 40.5 rebounds per game, No. 14 with a rebound margin of 8.5 and No. 45 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. 45 nationally and leads the Big South averaging 4.3 blocks per game
  • Christabel Ezumah leads the Big South and ranks No. 22 nationally averaging 2.04 blocks per game with 53 total blocks on the year
  • Overall, nine different Camels have recorded at least one block or more

SATURDAY IS THE NEW HUMP DAY

  • Campbell owns a 7-2 record this season in games played on Saturday compared to a 4-6 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 230 wins overall including 145 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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Players Mentioned

Faith Price

#1 Faith Price

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5' 8"
Sophomore
Brittany Staves

#14 Brittany Staves

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6' 0"
Sophomore
Shy Tuelle

#11 Shy Tuelle

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5' 10"
Junior
Christabel Ezumah

#32 Christabel Ezumah

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6' 2"
Freshman
Gianni Boone

#22 Gianni Boone

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5' 11"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Faith Price

#1 Faith Price

5' 8"
Sophomore
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Brittany Staves

#14 Brittany Staves

6' 0"
Sophomore
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Shy Tuelle

#11 Shy Tuelle

5' 10"
Junior
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Christabel Ezumah

#32 Christabel Ezumah

6' 2"
Freshman
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Gianni Boone

#22 Gianni Boone

5' 11"
Freshman
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