BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell returns home Wednesday to host Winthrop in a 2 p.m. tip from Gore Arena. 

Tickets are just $8 and are available at GoCamels.com/tickets or by calling 1-877-Go-Humps. Kids 12 and under get in free to all Campbell basketball games.

LAST TIME OUT

• Christabel Ezumah's career-high 21 points wasn't enough as Campbell fell to Presbyterian 60-56 Saturday afternoon at the Templeton Center
• Mara Neira led Presbyterian (12-15, 8-8) with 17 points and four assists while Bryanna Brady and Tilda Sjokvist added 10 each
• Ezumah made 10-of-15 shots and added nine boards for Campbell (14-13, 9-7). Svenia Nurenberg added 12 points while Audrey Fuller and Brittany Staves contributed seven apiece
• Presbyterian jumped out to an early lead behind an 11-2 run to end the first quarter and led 39-27 at the half. The Blue Hose extended their lead to as many as 19 with 1:15 left in the third quarter
• Campbell used a 13-3 run to start the fourth quarter to cut the deficit to single digits. Nurenberg, who scored 10 points in the final period, made it a four-point game after her three-pointer with 2:06 left
• A steal and score by Fuller with less than a minute remaining cut the Blue Hose lead to 58-56. Campbell had a chance to tie or take the lead but turned it over on an inbounds pass with 5.5 seconds left

SERIES HISTORY

• Campbell leads the all-time series, 37-11
• Campbell defeated the Eagles earlier this season, 53-40, behind a career-high 20 points from Audrey Fuller
• The Camels have won nine straight in the series, last falling to Winthrop in 2019
• Campbell is 13-1 against Winthrop in the Ronny Fisher era (since 2016-17 season)

SCOUTING THE EAGLES

• Winthrop owns a 8-19 record overall with a 6-10 mark in conference play this season
• Graduate guard Paige Powell leads the Eagles averaging 12.5 points and 7.5 boards
• Picked to finish ninth in the Big South preseason poll
• Led by third year head coach Semeka Randall Lay

A WIN ON WEDNESDAY WOULD...

• Be the 786th win in program history (785-593)
• Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 231st career win (230-218)
• Be Coach Fisher's 134th win at Campbell (133-74)

EZUMAH EXCELLENCE

• Junior forward Christabel Ezumah has scored 20 or more points in two of the past three games
• Against Gardner-Webb (2/11) Ezumah scored 20 points on 7-of-12 shooting along with 13 boards
• The following week against Presbyterian (2/18), she scored a career-high 21 points with nine boards
• Additionally, Ezumah has three double-doubles in her past six outings

NATIONALLY RANKED DEFENSE

• Campbell ranks No. 5 nationally in scoring defense, holding foes to an average of 52.3 points per game
• The Camels also rank No. 8 in field goal percentage defense, holding teams to shoot 34.7 percent from the field and rank No. 41 in three-point  field goal percentage defense, limiting teams to shoot 27.9 percent from behind the arc
• Additionally, the Camels rank No. 52 nationally with 40.0 rebounds per game, No. 17 with a rebound margin of 8.2 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

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. 21 nationally averaging 2.00 blocks per game with 54 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 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)