BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell continues CAA this weekend, hosting Monmouth on Friday at 7 PM before heading to William & Mary on Sunday at 1 PM. Both games will be broadcast on FloCollege with Evan Budrovich and Wanda Watkins on the call for Friday's game against Monmouth.
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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:
- 80th nationally and 4th in the CAA in scoring defense (59.4 PPG allowed)
- 103rd nationally and 5th in the CAA in field goal percentage defense (38.9%)
- 60th 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 dropped its second-straight game with a 75-70 loss at Stony Brook last Sunday
- Courtney Dahlquist set a career-high with 21 points while Gigi Boone tied her career-high with 21 points in the loss. Gemma Nunez set a new career high with 12 assists
SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS
- Monmouth enters Friday's matchup 10-9 overall and 5-3 in CAA play
- The Hawks rank 20th nationally and 1st in the CAA averaging 4.9 blocks as well as ranking 38th nationally and 1st in the CAA with 28.2 defensive rebounds per game
- Fifth-year guard Damaris Rodriguez leads Monmouth averaging 17.0 points in CAA games while fifth-year forward Taisha Exanor is averaging a near double-double with 10.5 points and 9.5 rebounds
- Cait Wetmore leads the Hawks in her first season as head coach
- William & Mary is 8-10 overall but holds a 5-2 record in CAA play entering into the weekend
- Senior guard Bella Nascimento leads the Tribe and ranks 5th in the CAA averaging 15.2 points per game. Nascimento has scored 24+ points in four of her past six games
- Erin Dickerson Davis leads the Tribe in her third season as head coach
SERIES HISTORY
- Campbell is 0-2 all-time against Monmouth with both losses coming last season during CAA play
- The Hawks edged Campbell, 49-47, in West Long Branch, N.J. and claimed a 53-49 win later on in Buies Creek
- The Camels are 1-2 overall against William & Mary
- Campbell picked up its first win over the Tribe last season, a 57-46 victory in Buies Creek
- William & Mary's last win in the series came on Nov. 9, 2007 - a 71-53 win at the Elon ISES Tip-Off Tournament
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 are averaging 20.0 turnovers in Gore Arena
- Campbell's 8-0 start at home is the second-longest streak of the Ronny Fisher era since the 2019-20 Big South regular season champion Camels started 10-0 at home
TWO 20-PLUS SCORERS
- Both Courtney Dahlquist and Gianni Boone scored 21 points each in Campbell's narrow 75-70 loss at Stony Brook
- Boone, who made 10-of-15 field goals, scored the majority of her points inside the paint while Dahlquist scored 15 of her 21 by shooting 5-of-8 from three
- Boone and Dahlquist are the first CU duo to each have 20 or more points in a game since Shy Tuelle (21) and Caroline Bowns (20) accomplished the feat against Hampton on March 14, 2019
FRESHMEN CONTRIBUTIONS
- Campbell has seen a spark from its freshman class this season:
- Olivia Tucker ranks 3rd on the team averaging 9.1 points per game and has had two 20+ point outings (24 vs ETSU, 20 at Miami)
- Jasmine Felton is averaging 7.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.4 steals while shooting a team-high 52.6 percent from the field
- Over the past 10 games, Ciara Alexander is averaging 11.1 points on a team-high 52.6 percent shooting along with posting a team-high 6.3 rebounds in that stretch. Alexander has scored in double-figures in eight of the past 10 games-- all while averaging just 18.8 minutes off the bench
THAT'S OUR POINT GUARD
- Gemma Nunez ranks 16th nationally and 1st in the CAA averaging 5.6 assists overall and 94th nationally/4th in the CAA averaging 2.2 steals
- Additionally, Nunez ranks 58th nationally/1st in the CAA with a 2.04 assist-to-turnover ratio
- Nunez has dished out 10+ assists three times this season
- Nunez posted a career-high 12 assists, including nine in the first half, at Stony Brook
- The Almeria, Spain native also opened up CAA play dealing 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 6.4 boards per game
DAHLQUIST FROM DEEP
- Senior forward Courtney Dahlquist leads the Camels with 36 threes on 37.9 percent shooting from behind the arc
- Dahlquist ranks 4th in the CAA averaging 1.89 threes per game
- She scored a career-best 21 points in 27 minutes, connecting on 5-of-8 threes at Stony Brook
A WIN WOULD...
- Be the 628th win in Division-I program history (627-495)
- Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 260th career victory (259-243)
- Be Coach Fisher's 163rd win at Campbell (162-99)
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)