BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell heads on the road for its final two road games of the regular season. The Camels travel to Towson on Friday in a 6 PM tip against the Tigers before heading to Philadelphia on Sunday for a 2 PM matchup at Drexel. Both games will be broadcast on FloCollege.

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 109 opponents to 50 points or less
• This season Campbell ranks:
  • 57th nationally and 4th in the CAA in scoring defense (58.3 PPG allowed)
  • 98th nationally and 5th in the CAA in field goal percentage defense (39.1%)
  • 30th nationally and 7th in the CAA giving up just 13.9 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%)
  • 23rd nationally giving up only 13.8 fouls per game

LAST TIME OUT

• Campbell bounced back after receiving its first loss at home this season with a 76-51 victory over Stony Brook on Sunday
• Campbell shot 60.4 percent from the field marking its best single-game FG% against a Division-I team since Dec. 31, 2020 (60.4% vs. Winthrop)
• Four Camels finished in double-figures led by freshmen Ciara Alexander with 18 points on 9-of-11 shooting from the field and Jasmine Felton who poured in 17 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the field (8-of-8 from two)
• Campbell shot 70.7 percent from two, pouring in a season-high 58 points in the paint

SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS

• Towson enters 9-17 overall and 7-8 in CAA play this season. The Tigers have won three of their last four games with wins over Hofstra, Stony Brook and Northeastern
• The Tigers have three players who average 10+ points with India Johnston (12.1), Anasia Staton (11.3) and Khady Leye (10.2)
• The Tigers are led by Lauren Harper in her third season as head coach 
• Reigning CAA champions Drexel are currently in second-place in the CAA standings with a 15-9 overall record and a 11-3 mark in CAA games
• Drexel won the CAA Championship last season, earning the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament
• The Dragons boast one of the top defenses in the country, ranking 32nd nationally in scoring defense (56.6 ppg allowed)
• Senior guard Amaris Baker leads the CAA averaging 17.4 points per game
• Drexel is led by head coach Amy Mallon

SERIES HISTORY

• Campbell heads to Drexel in a series the Dragons lead 2-1
• Drexel handed Campbell its first home loss of the season last week in a 60-54 win in Buies Creek
• Drexel held off the Camels 59-54 last season in the lone regular season matchup between the squads up in Philadelphia
• Campbell's lone win in the series came in the first-ever matchup between both sides in 1992, a 71-52 victory at a tournament hosted by Virginia Tech

ALEXANDER NAMED CAA ROOKIE OF THE WEEK

• Ciara Alexander picked up her second CAA Rookie of the Week honors on Feb. 24
• Alexander led the Camels averaging 14.0 points on 55.0 percent shooting along with 5.0 boards and 1.5 steals in a narrow loss to Drexel and a win over Stony Brook
• She scored 10 points and pulled down seven boards in 17 minutes against Drexel before leading the Camels with 18 points on 9-of-11 shooting from the field, three rebounds, two steals and a block 

WINNING IN THE CAA

• Campbell has already matched its CAA win total from last season (9) with four games left in the regular season
• Five of Campbell's nine CAA wins have been by 20 or more points including a 30-point win over Hampton and a 40-point win over Northeastern

THE CAMELS ARE COOKING

• Campbell's offense is ranked 2nd in the CAA, averaging 65.6 points per game
• The Camels also rank 2nd in the CAA shooting 41.2 percent overall and rank 3rd in the conference averaging 6.0 threes per game along with 22.9 bench points per game

PROTECTING THE ROCK

• Campbell leads the CAA and ranks 36th nationally with just 13.2 turnovers per game
• The Camels hold a 3.96 turnover margin (55th nationally, 2nd in CAA) and a 1.05 assist/turnover ratio (68th nationally, 2nd in CAA)

HOME, SWEET HOME

• Campbell is 11-1 at home this season and are tied for the best home record in the CAA (Drexel)
• The Camels are outscoring foes by 21.3 points at Gore Arena, shooting 43.1 percent from the field while holding foes to 34.4 percent shooting
• Opposing teams are also averaging 19.0 turnovers in Buies Creek
• Campbell's 10-0 start at home matched the longest undefeated streak at home in the Ronny Fisher era along with the 2019-20 Big South regular season champion Camels who started 10-0  and finished 12-2 at home
• Campbell's top-5 single-season home records in NCAA Division-I era (since 1986-87):
  • 12-0 (1990-91)
  • 13-1 (1986-87)
  • 12-1 (1997-98)
  • 12-2 (2019-20)
  • 13-2 (2014-15)
• The Camels have won four CAA home games by 20 or more points including an 81-41 win over Northeastern

MULTIPLE 20-PLUS SCORERS

• Four different Camels - Olivia Tucker, Courtney Dahlquist, Gianni Boone and Ciara Alexander - have scored 20 points or more this season
• Tucker dropped 20-plus points in back-to-back games, scoring 24 (the most by a Camel this season) against ETSU while scoring 20 at Miami
• Dahlquist dropped 20+ points in consecutive games during CAA play, scoring a career-high 21 points against Stony Brook and pouring in 20 points behind a career-best 6 three-pointers
• The team's leading scorer, Gianni Boone has three 20-point outings this season
• Boone has scored 21 points against Western Carolina and Stony Brook and dropped 20 points and added 10 boards against UNCW. Boone has scored in double-figures 15 times overall
• Boone and Dahlquist became 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
• Alexander became the latest Camel to score 20 points in a game, notching a career-best 20 points in 24 minutes off the bench against Northeastern. A freshman, Alexander made 7-of-11 field goals and went 6-of-7 from the charity stripe

FRESHMEN CONTRIBUTIONS

• Campbell boasts one of the best trio of freshmen in the CAA this season with all three winning CAA weekly honors at least once this season
• Olivia Tucker is one of the top scoring options for the Camels off the bench in CAA play, averaging 8.2 points per game on the season
• Tucker was named CAA Player of the Week after scoring 20+ points in consecutive games against ETSU (24) and Miami (20)
• Jasmine Felton is a three-time CAA Rookie of the Week, averaging 8.6 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.4 steals all while shooting a team-high 53.5 percent from the field
• Ciara Alexander ranks 3rd on the team averaging 9.2 points along with 4.7 boards - all while playing just 15.7 minutes off the bench
• Alexander has scored in double-figures in nine of 14 CAA games and has been named CAA Rookie of the Week twice this season

THAT'S OUR POINT GUARD

• Gemma Nunez ranks 7th nationally and 1st in the CAA averaging 6.01assists overall and 41st nationally/1st in the CAA with a 2.21 assist/turnover ratio
• Additionally, Nunez ranks 78th nationally/2nd in the CAA averaging 2.3 steals per game while her 59 steals on the season leads the CAA
• Nunez has dished out 10+ assists four times this season
• Nunez posted a career-high 12 assists, including nine in the first half, at Stony Brook
• She followed that up by recording her first career double-double with 11 pts and 11 assists against Monmouth
• Nunez also opened up CAA play dealing 9 assists at both UNCW and Charleston and dished out 9 assists against William & Mary
• Nunez was named CAA Player of the Week (Feb. 9) after leading the Camels to wins over Northeastern and NC A&T

FELTON ONE OF THE BEST FROM TWO

• Freshman guard Jasmine Felton is shooting 67.3 percent from two (70-of-104), ranking 9th in the country
• Felton is the only freshman and the only guard in the top 10 nationally for two-point field goal percentage

DAHLQUIST FROM DEEP

• Senior forward Courtney Dahlquist ranks 3rd in the CAA shooting 36.8 percent from behind the arc
• Her 49 threes this season also ranks 4th in the CAA
• Dahlquist scored a career-best 21 points in 27 minutes, connecting on 5-of-8 threes at Stony Brook
• She followed up that game with another 20 point outing against Monmouth, making a career-high 6 three-pointers

HOMEGROWN TALENT

• Campbell enters the 2024-25 season as one of six D-I programs without a transfer (from any level) on its roster for a second-straight season (Air Force, Brown, Cornell, Princeton, South Dakota St.)

A WIN WOULD...

• Be the 634th win in Division-I program history (633-496)
• Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 266th career victory (265-244)
• Be Coach Fisher's 169th win at Campbell (168-100)

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)