BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Third seeded Campbell (15-14, 10-8) faces sixth seeded Longwood (9-20, 8-10) Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Big South Championship. Tip-off is set for 8:00 p.m. at Bojangles' Coliseum in Charlotte.

Tickets are available to purchase at GoCamels.com/tickets. Fans can watch the game on ESPN+ or listen to Chris Hemeyer and Wanda Watkins provide audio commentary on The Varsity Network app.

LAST TIME OUT

• Ashlyn Traylor scored 19 points and Radford defeated Campbell 66-61 Saturday afternoon at Gore Arena
• Playing in her final home game, graduate transfer Erika Joseph led Campbell (15-14, 10-8) with 15 points making five three-pointers
• Radford held the Camels to six points in the second quarter and led by as many as 15 in the third. Vanessa Blake scored 12 while Rachel LaLonde and Carmen Williams chipped in 11 points each for the Highlanders
• Campbell, which trailed by as many as 15 in the third quarter, made it a one-point game after Ezumah made a layup with 4:38 left in the fourth to cap a 9-0 run. The Camels never made it any closer however after the Highlanders made 9-of-10 free throws to end the game

SERIES HISTORY

• Campbell leads the all-time series, 24-8
• The Camels defeated the Lancers 56-48 on Dec. 31 this season behind double-figure scoring efforts by Gianni Boone (14), Christabel Ezumah (14) and Svenia Nurenberg (10)
• The Lancers earned revenge with a 65-61 win over Campbell, who was without starter Brittany Staves, on Feb. 4
• Both teams met in the Big South Championship final last season
• Campbell is 2-1 against the Lancers in the Big South tournament, winning in the 2018-19 first round and the 2020-21 semifinals
• Campbell is 12-4 against Longwood in the Ronny Fisher era (since 2016-17 season)

SCOUTING THE LANCERS

• Sixth-seeded Longwood finished the regular season with a 9-20 record overall and a 8-10 record in Big South play
• The Lancers allow the highest field goal percentage among Big South teams, allowing foes to shoot 46.0 percent
• Longwood leads the Big South shooting 73.1 percent on free throws
• Redshirt junior guard Adriana Shipp-Davis and senior guard Anne-Hamilton LeRoy were both selected to the All-Big South second team
• Shipp-Davis averages a team-high 14.1 points and 5.6 rebounds while LeRoy averages 13.4 points
• Picked to finish sixth in the Big South preseason poll
• Led by first year head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery

A WIN ON THURSDAY WOULD...

• Be the 787th win in program history (786-594)
• Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 232nd career win (231-219)
• Be Coach Fisher's 135th win at Campbell (134-75)

BIG SOUTH TOURNAMENT HISTORY

• Campbell owns a 23-17 record in the Big South tournament
• The Camels have made it to the championship game in each of the past three tournaments (2019, 2021, 2022)
• Won 1989 tournament title over Radford

AWARD SEASON

• Christabel Ezumah was named All-Big South first team
• Brittany Staves was named honorable mention all-conference and Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• Gianni Boone was named to the all-freshman team

EZUMAH EXCELLENCE

• Junior forward Christabel Ezumah has scored 20 or more points in two of the past five games and has scored in double-figures in seven of her last eight outings
• 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 four double-doubles in her past eight games

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. 9 in field goal percentage defense, holding teams to shoot 34.9 percent from the field and rank No. 43 in three-point  field goal percentage defense, limiting teams to shoot 28.1 percent from behind the arc
• Additionally, the Camels rank No. 56 nationally with 39.7 rebounds per game, No. 18 with a rebound margin of 8.1 and No. 38 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. 38 nationally and leads the Big South averaging 4.3 blocks per game
• Christabel Ezumah leads the Big South and ranks No. 23 nationally averaging 2.0 blocks per game with 58 total blocks on the year
• Overall, nine 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 231 wins overall including 146 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)