BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Fresh off back-to-back wins, Campbell continues CAA play as it hosts Northeastern on Friday at 7 PM and heads to league-leaders North Carolina A&T on Sunday at 2 PM.

Friday's game will celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day. All junior camels will have the chance to meet their favorite Campbell women's teams on the concourse and come onto the court for the pre-game fan tunnel! Make sure to bring any gear you'd like signed by your favorite team.

Campbell's game against Northeastern is also the Game of the Week on FloCollege. Fans can tune in to watch the game for free on Youtube. 


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:
  • 93rd nationally and 5th in the CAA in scoring defense (60.3 PPG allowed)
  • 138th nationally and 6th in the CAA in field goal percentage defense (39.6%)
  • 49th nationally and 7th in the CAA giving up just 14.5 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 picked up its first road win of the season with a 92-71 win over William & Mary last Sunday
• Six Camels scored in double-figures led by a career-high 18 points from Ciara Alexander and a season-high 16 pts by Audrey Fuller
• The Camels shot 56.6 percent overall, including 70.2 percent on two-point field goals, and made 28-of-31 free throws

SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS

• Northeastern heads into Friday's game with a 1-17 overall record including 0-9 in CAA games this season
• Redshirt sophomore guard and Villanova transfer Abby Jegede ranks 3rd in the CAA averaging 16.5 points per game
• The Huskies are led by Priscilla Edwards-Lloyd in her second season as head coach
• North Carolina A&T is 12-8 overall and sit atop the CAA standings heading into the weekend with a 8-1 conference record
• The Aggies boast one of the top defenses in the country, ranking 8th nationally holding foes to 53.9 points per game and 5th nationally in three-point percentage defense at 24.3 percent
• Jordyn Dorsey leads NC A&T and ranks 5th in the CAA averaging 15.7 points per game
• Tarrell Robinson leads the Aggies in his 13th season at the helm

SERIES HISTORY

• Campbell is 1-0 all-time against Northeastern with the Camels winning the inaugural matchup against the Huskies 54-43 last season up in Boston
• The Camels are 22-12 all-time against NC A&T and are 2-2 in the last four matchups
• Campbell last defeated the Aggies back in 2022 when both programs were in the Big South as CU claimed a 56-48 victory in Greensboro
• The Aggies claimed the lone regular season matchup last season, 73-51 in Buies Creek

PROTECTING THE ROCK

• Campbell leads the CAA and ranks 40th nationally with just 13.6 turnovers per game
• The Camels hold a 3.24 turnover margin and a 1.04 assist/turnover ratio, both of which rank 2nd in the CAA and top-80 in the country

THE CAMELS ARE COOKING

• Campbell's offense is ranked 2nd in the CAA, averaging 66.2 points per game
• The Camels are shooting 40.8 percent overall, make 6.6 threes per game and average 23.0 bench points

UNDEFEATED AT HOME

• Campbell is the only CAA school still undefeated at home (9-0) featuring wins over High Point, ETSU, UNCW, Delaware and Monmouth
• The Camels are outscoring teams by 21.8 points in home games, shooting 42.0 percent from the field while holding foes to 32.8 percent shooting
• Opposing teams are averaging 19.1 turnovers in Gore Arena 
• Campbell's 9-0 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

MULTIPLE 20-PLUS SCORERS

• Three Camels - Olivia Tucker, Courtney Dahlquist and Gianni Boone - have scored 20 points or more multiple times 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

FRESHMEN CONTRIBUTIONS

• Campbell has seen a spark from its freshman class this season:
• Olivia Tucker ranks 4th on the team averaging 8.7 points per game
• Tucker was named CAA Player of the Week after scoring 20+ points in consecutive games against ETSU (24) and Miami (20)
• Jasmine Felton is averaging 8.0 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.3 steals while shooting a team-high 54.4 percent from the field
• Felton has been named CAA Rookie of the Week twice this season
• In CAA play, Ciara Alexander is averaging 11.1 points and a team-high 5.6 rebounds
• Alexander has scored in double-figures in nine of the past 12 games-- all while averaging just 16.0 minutes off the bench
• Alexander was named CAA Rookie of the Week once this season

THAT'S OUR POINT GUARD

• Gemma Nunez ranks 9th nationally and 1st in the CAA averaging 6.0 assists overall and 88th nationally/3rd in the CAA averaging 2.2 steals
• Additionally, Nunez ranks 45th nationally/1st in the CAA with a 2.2 assist-to-turnover ratio
• 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
• The Almeria, Spain native also opened up CAA play dealing 9 assists at both UNCW and Charleston and dished out 9 assists against William & Mary

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 CAA and ranks 68th nationally (min. 2 att. per game) shooting 38.9 percent from three this season 
• Her 44 threes this season ranks 128th in the country and 2nd 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

A WIN WOULD...

• Be the 630th win in Division-I program history (629-495)
• Be head coach Ronny Fisher's 262nd career victory (261-243)
• Be Coach Fisher's 165th win at Campbell (164-99)

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)