Game Information
Opponent: Campbell
Date: Feb. 8, 2020
Site: Buies Creek, N.C. (Pope Center)
Radio: WPCC (bit.ly/2m3wPAT)
Announcers: Ryan Clary (PbP), Kenn Blankenship (Analyst)
TV Broadcast: ESPN+ (https://es.pn/3bnJZh4)
Live Stats: www.GoCamels.com (http://statb.us/v/psby/280696)
Twitter: @BlueHoseSports

CU leads the series 12-5
Last meeting:
2020: PC 85, PC 79
2019: PC 76, CU 71

Campbell
Record: 11-12, 2-9
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Feb. 6, 2020, vs. Winthrop, L L 53-62, in Rock Hill, S.C.
Head Coach: Kevin McGeehan
Career Record: 102-119 (7th year)
CU Record: 102-119 (7th year)
vs. PC: 9-4

Presbyterian College
Record: 9-15, 6-5
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Feb. 6, 2020 vs Gardner-Webb, W 65-61, in Clinton, S.C.
Head Coach: Quinton Ferrell
Career Record: 9-15 (1st year)
PC Record: 9-15 (1st year)
vs. CU: 1-0

NOTES
Presbyterian College finds itself on the road for two games, with Campbell on the docket first with a 4:30 p.m., contest Saturday, Feb. 8 ... While the Camels own the overall series 12-5, the Blue Hose have won the last two meetings, including an 85-79 decision earlier this season ... 

The Blue Hose, behind two 20-point scorers, used a 17-7 run midway through the second half to build a double-digit lead and held on with clutch free throw shooting during a late Camel rally, to take the 85-79 win over Campbell in the last meeting ... Zeb Graham led the team with a career-high 22 points, followed by Ben Drake with 20 ...

Campbell is 11-12 overall and 2-9 in the conference after a 53-62 loss at Winthrop in the last game ... The Camels are led by Cedric Henderson with 12.1 points per game, with Cory Gensler on top in rebounds with 4.7 ... Campbell is averaging 69.0 points, 30.3 rebounds, and 14.5 assists per game ...

PC is 9-15 overall and 6-5 in the league, and won its last game to Gardner-Webb, 65-61 ... Leading the Blue Hose is Cory Hightower with 12.7 points and 5.8 rebounds per game ... Ben Drake is pulling down 5.8 boards per game as well ... PC averages 66.9 points, 34.5 rebounds, and 12.4 assists per game ... 

PC outscored Gardner-Webb, 31-8, in the final 10 minutes of the first half and the opening three of the second to build a double-digit lead, which helped the Blue Hose survive a late Runnin' Bulldog rally and take the 65-61 win in its last contest, Thursday evening at the Templeton Center ... Chris Martin scored a career-high 25 points in the win, helped by a career-best three rebounds ... 

PC experienced a five-game winning streak earlier this season, which tied for the longest winning streak since the 2017 season when the team picked up five straight ... The Blue Hose have won at least four games in a row just twice in their Division I history ... 

In league play the Blue Hose have been averaging 4.9 points higher, and are shooting .360 from the perimeter against league opponents, compared to .320 overall ... Cory Hightower is scoring 1.1 more points per game, while freshman Zeb Graham is averaging almost three more ... 

Ben Drake's career-high 16 rebounds in the first meeting against Gardner-Webb tied for fifth in the PC DI record book ... The team's 52 rebounds that same game tied for sixth in the PC DI record book ...

A young team in 2019-20, the Blue Hose have enlisted several new starters this season ... In the last nine of 10 games four freshmen have started along with sophomore Cory Hightower ... Other starters have been Michael Isler, who is averaging 26.9 minutes, as well as Zeb Graham, Sean Jenkins, and Owen McCormack, who are averaging over 15 minutes a game ... 

Michigan was the third and final team that PC played this season from one of the Power 5 conferences ... The Blue Hose faced ACC's Clemson on Nov. 7 and Notre Dame Nov. 18 ... Michigan was the only ranked opponent, sitting 14th/15th ...

The Blue Hose are making marks in the PC DI season stats record book ... Currently PC is third in scoring average (66.9), second in rebounding average (34.5), second in assists average (12.4), fourth in steals average (6.1), and second in field goal percentage defense (.439) ...

With a three-pointer at Longwood JC Younger took over the top spot in the PC Division I career record book with 215, he now has 226 … He is also now eight from hitting the 1,000-point plateau, which would make him the fifth player in PC DI history to reach the historic plateau ... He is now in the top five in PC DI career scoring ... With 12 points against Gardner-Webb Cory Hightower eclipsed 500 career points (now at 631) ...

Several Blue Hose are showing up in the Big South stats ... Cory Hightower is 15th in scoring (12.7) and eighth in rebounds (5.8), while Ben Drake is ninth in rebounding (5.8) ... Chris Martin is ninth in assists (3.0), Hightower is 13th (2.6) ... Martin is 10th in steals (1.5) ... JC Younger is 12th in three-pointers made (1.7), while Michael Isler is tied for 14th in blocks (0.5) ... Martin is eighth in assist/turnover ratio (1.4), while Hightower is eighth in minutes played (32.3) ...

In conference play the Blue Hose are in the top five in several categories, including scoring defense (72.1 - 4th), scorign margin (-0.3 - 5th), free throw percentage (.739 - 3rd), field goal percentage (.473 - 2nd), field goal percentage defense (.438 - 3rd), three-point field goal percentage (.360 - 4th), rebounding defense (30.3 - 1st), as well as rebounding margin (+4.7 - 2nd) ...

A new season brings a new coaching staff with the addition of 2007 PC alum Quinton Ferrell ... An integral member of the basketball team as a student-athlete he served as an assistant coach from graduation to 2012 ... After stops at The Citadel and Army, he settled at College of Charleston for five seasons from 2014-19 ... In his fourth season the Cougars made a memorable run that included the program's second-straight 25-win campaign, an impressive 26-8 overall record and 14-4 mark in CAA play ... The co-regular-season champions won the CAA Men's Basketball Championship and earned their first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1999 ...

Ferrell brought with him a new staff with the additions of Ben Korren, Trey Meyer, Nick Lagroone as assistant coaches, Trey Johnson as Director of Basketball Operations, and Erik Goldbach as Video Coordinator ... 

The Blue Hose are looking for another strong season at the Templeton Center in 2019-20, after finishing 12-3 at home last season ... The 12 wins at home was the most in its DI history ... PC is 6-4 at home so far this season ...

The 20 wins in 2018-19 by the Blue Hose were most in PC DI history ... The Blue Hose recorded 14 wins in 2011-12 (14-15) ... The record for most wins all-time is 27, set in 92-93 and 2002-03 ... The last time the Blue Hose won at least 20 games was in 2006-07, the final year of Division II, the team went 20-9 ... 

Last season PC posted nine conference wins (9-7), which was tied for the most in its DI history ... The Blue Hose were 9-9 in 2008-09 ... The team is currently 6-5 in Big South play ...

PC has made at least one three-pointer in the last 395 games ... PC has hit one three-pointer in several games, the last against Clemson in 2015, but has not been held without one in its entire Division I history ...