BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell continues CAA play with a pair of home games against UNCW on Friday and Delaware on Sunday. Tip-off against UNCW on Friday is set for 7 PM while the Camels take on the Blue Hens at 2 PM on Sunday. Both games will be broadcast on FloCollege with Lendl Suggs and Wanda Watkins providing commentary.
The first 150 students to Friday's game will receive a "Beat UNCW" t-shirt.
Using this specific Campbell link, any Fighting Camels fan can sign up for a FloCollege subscription with a discounted rate of $12.99 a month or $99 per year. Faculty, staff, and students with a campbell.edu email address can use the same link for a discounted rate of $9.99 a month or $99 a year.
Single game tickets for women's games are available at GoCamels.com/tickets for just $10. Kids 12 and under receive free admission with the purchase of at least one adult ticket. Courtside seating is also available starting at $20. TO PURCHASE YOUR SINGLE GAME TICKETS please click HERE or call the Athletics Ticket Office, at 1-877-GO-HUMPS.
A PROGRAM BUILT ON DEFENSE
- Campbell is the only program in the nation to be ranked in the top-25 in scoring defense in each of the past eight seasons
- In the Ronny Fisher era (since 2016-17) Campbell has held 42 opponents to 40 points or less and 108 opponents to 50 points or less
- This season Campbell ranks:
- 76th nationally and 4th in the CAA in scoring defense (59.3 PPG allowed)
- 46th nationally and 7th in the CAA giving up just 14.7 fouls per game
- Last season Campbell ranked:
- 8th nationally and 1st in the CAA in scoring defense (55.1 PPG allowed)
- 31st nationally in field goal percentage defense (37.1%)
- 10th nationally in three-point percentage defense (26.5%)
- Additionally, Campbell ranked 23rd nationally giving up only 13.8 fouls per game
LAST TIME OUT
- Campbell bounced back with a 72-42 win over Hampton last Sunday
- Ciara Alexander led all scorers with 16 points and added 7 boards for the Camels who never trailed
- The Camels shot 46.0 percent (29-of-63) from the field while holding the Lady Pirates to just 31.4 percent (16-of-51) shooting overall
SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS
- UNCW is 8-8 overall and 2-1 in CAA play this season
- The Seahawks defeated Campbell 67-61 to open CAA play on Jan. 3 and picked up a win at Northeastern, 51-49, on Sunday
- Grad transfer (North Carolina) Ali Zelaya leads the Seahawks averaging 11.3 points and 8.3 rebounds in conference play while both Taylor Henderson and Jania Hall are averaging 10.0 points each
- Nicole Woods leads UNCW in her second season as head coach
- Delaware enters the weekend 3-10 overall and 0-3 in CAA games. The Blue Hens take on Hampton on Friday night before playing Campbell
- Forward Chloe Wilson leads the Blue Hens averaging 13.7 points and 9.3 rebounds in her first three conference games
- The Blue Hens lead the CAA shooting 34.6 percent from three
- Sarah Jenkins leads Delaware in her third season at the helm
SERIES HISTORY
- Campbell leads the all-time series against UNCW, 34-19
- Both teams split last season's regular season series with the Seahawks claiming a 69-58 win in Wilmington and the Camels picking up a 77-57 win in Buies Creek
- Campbell is 20-5 all-time against the Seahawks at home
- Campbell is 1-0 all-time against Delaware
- The Camels picked up a 66-65 win at Delaware in the teams' inaugural meeting last season
- Gemma Nunez along with current assistant coach Shy Tuelle led the way scoring 14 points each for the Camels who shot 52.1 percent (25-of-48) from the field in the win
ALEXANDER NAMED CAA ROTW
- Ciara Alexander picked up CAA Rookie of the Week honors (Jan. 13) after leading all scorers with 16 points and adding seven rebounds, two steals, one block and a career-high three assists in Campbell's 72-42 win over Hampton
- Alexander has scored in double-figures in each of the past six games and leads the Camels averaging 13.0 points and 6.3 rebounds in just 17.7 minutes during CAA play
DILL DRAINING 'EM IN CAA PLAY
- Sophomore guard Hadleigh Dill is shooting 52.9 percent (9-of-17) from three to open up CAA play
- Dill scored 11 points on 3-of-4 shooting from three off the bench at UNCW and scored a career-best 15 points behind 5-of-8 shooting from three at Charleston
- On the season, Dill is shooting 31.7 percent (19-of-60) from three
FRESHMEN CONTRIBUTIONS
- Campbell has seen a spark from its freshman class this season:
- Olivia Tucker ranks 2nd on the team averaging 9.8 points per game and has had two 20+ point outings (24 vs ETSU, 20 at Miami)
- Jasmine Felton is averaging 7.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.3 steals while shooting a team-high 53.7 percent from the field
- Over the last six games, Ciara Alexander leads the Camels averaging 12.8 points on 54.0 percent (27-of-50) shooting, along with a team-high 6.8 boards-- all while playing just 18.5 minutes off the bench
UNDEFEATED AT HOME
- Campbell is the only CAA school still undefeated at home
- The Camels are currently 6-0 in Buies Creek featuring wins over High Point, ETSU and Hampton
NUNEZ DOES IT ALL
- Gemma Nunez is currently averaging 7.7 points, 4.6 rebounds and 5.4 assists
- The do-it-all junior guard ranks 22nd nationally and 1st in the CAA averaging 5.4 assists overall and 89th nationally and 3rd in the CAA averaging 2.3 steals
- Additionally, Nunez ranks 94th nationally and 1st in the CAA with a 1.76 assist-to-turnover ratio
- Nunez has dished out 10 assists twice in games vs. High Point and Miami and scored a career-best 15 pts at Western Carolina
- The Almeria, Spain native opened up CAA play dishing out 9 assists at both UNCW and Charleston
BOARD WORK FOR FULLER
- Senior guard Audrey Fuller has set multiple career-highs in rebounding so far this season
- The Brisbane, Australia native tied her career-high with 9 boards against Mount Olive in the season opener and set new career-bests with 10 rebounds against High Point and then 11 rebounds against ETSU
- Fuller secured her first career double-double with 11 points and a career-high 12 boards against Purdue Fort Wayne
- Fuller leads the Camels averaging 6.0 boards per game
DAHLQUIST FROM DEEP
- Senior forward Courtney Dahlquist leads the Camels with 27 threes on 35.1 percent shooting from behind the arc
A WIN WOULD...
- Be the 626th win in Division-I program history (625-493)
- Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 258th career victory (257-241)
- Be Coach Fisher's 161st win at Campbell (160-97)
HEAD COACH RONNY FISHER
- A three-time Big South Coach of the Year, Ronny Fisher enters his ninth season at the helm of Campbell women's basketball and 17th as a head coach overall
- Over the previous eight seasons, Campbell has won 152 games for an average of 19 wins per season (152-90)
- Fisher enters the 2024-25 season with 249 career wins (249-234), which ranks 2nd most amongst active CAA coaches trailing only Charleston's Robin Harmony with 317 wins (317-183)
- Under Fisher, the Camels claimed the 2019-20 and 2021-22 Big South regular season titles and finished as Big South tournament runners-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)