BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell continues CAA play on the road as it travels to Long Island, N.Y. to take on Hofstra on Friday and Stony Brook on Sunday. Tip-off against Hofstra is set for 6 PM while tip-off at Stony Brook is set for 1 PM.
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:
- 70th nationally and 3rd in the CAA in scoring defense (58.8 PPG allowed)
- 104th nationally and 5th in the CAA in field goal percentage defense (38.8%)
- 58th nationally and 7th in the CAA giving up just 14.9 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 picked up its third-straight CAA home win by double-digits with a 75-54 win over Delaware last Sunday
- Four Camels finished in double-figures (Dahlquist, Boone, Tucker, Alexander) with all scoring 11 points each
- Audrey Fuller added 7 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists for the Camels who shot 48.3 percent (29-of-60) from the field
- Campbell held the Blue Hens to 31.5 percent (17-of-54) shooting and just 26.3 percent (5-of-19) shooting from three
SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS
- Hofstra enters Friday's matchup 8-9 overall and 3-2 in CAA play
- The Pride are one of the top rebounding teams in the country, ranking 41st nationally and 2nd in the CAA averaging 40.8 rebounds per game and 31st nationally with 14.6 offensive rebounds per game
- Junior guard Chloe Sterling leads Hofstra averaging 14.6 points along with 5.4 boards, 4.0 assists and 1.7 steals while fellow junior Emma Von Essen leads the CAA with 41 three-pointers on 31.3 percent shooting from deep
- Danielle Santos Atkinson leads Hofstra in her sixth season as head coach
- Stony Brook heads into the weekend 8-9 overall and 3-3 in CAA games
- The Seawolves won 28 games last season, claiming the CAA regular season title and advancing to the second round of the WBIT
- Stony Brook ranks 6th nationally in three point defense, limiting teams to 24.2 percent shooting beyond the arc
- Senior guard Zaida Gonzalez ranks 2nd in the CAA averaging 16.8 points per game
- Joy McCorvey leads the Seawolves in her first season as head coach
SERIES HISTORY
- Campbell is 1-1 all-time against Hofstra
- The Pride won the first matchup, 58-55, in Hempstead back in 2019 while the Camels earned a 65-51 win during the regular season last year in Buies Creek. Current assistant coach Shy Tuelle scored 20 points on 6-of-9 shooting from three in the win over Hofstra last season
- Campbell is 1-2 all-time against Stony Brook with all three meetings happening last season
- Stony Brook handed Campbell a 73-43 loss in both teams CAA opener before the Camels got revenge with a thrilling 75-73 win in Buies Creek. The Seawolves ended Campbell's season in the CAA tournament with a 61-52 win
- Former Camel Christabel Ezumah scored a game-high 28 points and added 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks in the win over Stony Brook
- Campbell was one of two CAA teams (Towson) to beat Stony Brook during last year's regular season
DILL DRAINING 'EM IN CAA PLAY
- Sophomore guard Hadleigh Dill is shooting 41.7 percent (10-of-24) from three in CAA play
- Dill scored 11 points on 3-of-4 shooting from three off the bench at UNCW, scored a career-best 15 points behind 5-of-8 shooting from three at Charleston and has added 10 points against UNCW and 8 against Delaware
FRESHMEN CONTRIBUTIONS
- Campbell has seen a spark from its freshman class this season:
- Olivia Tucker ranks 2nd on the team averaging 9.5 points per game and has had two 20+ point outings (24 vs ETSU, 20 at Miami)
- Jasmine Felton is averaging 7.3 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.3 steals while shooting a team-high 53.7 percent from the field
- Ciara Alexander is averaging 12.3 points on a team-high 56.5 percent shooting along with a team-best 6.8 rebounds over her past 8 games. Alexander has scored in double-figures in each of the past eight games, all while averaging just 19.3 minutes off the bench
UNDEFEATED AT HOME
- Campbell is the only CAA school still undefeated at home (8-0) featuring wins over High Point, ETSU, UNCW and Delaware
- The Camels are outscoring teams by 23.4 points in home games, shooting 42.1 percent from the field while holding foes to 31.0 percent shooting
- Opposing teams average 20.0 turnovers against a CU defense that limits foes to 46.1 points per game at home
NUNEZ LEADS CAA IN ASSISTS/STEALS
- Junior guard Gemma Nunez ranks 31st nationally and 1st in the CAA averaging 5.2 assists overall and 85th nationally/1st in the CAA averaging 2.3 steals
- Additionally, Nunez ranks 85th nationally/1st in the CAA with a 1.85 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 28 threes on 34.1 percent shooting from behind the arc
A WIN WOULD...
- Be the 628th win in Division-I program history (627-493)
- Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 260th career victory (259-241)
- Be Coach Fisher's 163rd win at Campbell (162-97)
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)