CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – After one of the toughest stretches in the NAIA this season, the Campbellsville University women's basketball team came away from three-straight top-15 matchups undefeated as they head into a home and home set against Fisk University starting this Monday in Nashville, Tenn. for a CU road game.
 
Tip is scheduled for 6 p.m. CT locally and 7 p.m. ET back in Campbellsville as the game will be broadcast live on the air of 88.7 The Tiger and the CU Sports Network online at campbellsvilletigers.com/watch. The voice of Lady Tiger basketball, Matt Payton will be live courtside in Nashville to bring the play-by-play of the action at the Henderson A. Johnson Arena.
 
The Lady Tigers earned those three-straight top-15 wins against No. 14 Mid-America Nazarene, No. 8 Westmont, and most recently against No. 15 Lindsey Wilson College on the road to start off Mid-South Conference play 1-0.
 
Campbellsville earned an 86-65 win in Columbia, Ky. over the Blue Raiders behind 17 points from both Lexy Lake and Savannah Gregory as the Lady Tigers used a 29-10 second quarter advantage to run away with their 21-point win.
 
SERIES FACTS

• The Lady Tigers and Bulldogs have only met four times and all four meeting came as home and home meetings, much like the pair of meetings this season.
• Campbellsville has won all four of the matchups by large, double digit margins of victory in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons with three of the four meetings coming in the month of January.
• In the 2015-16 meetings, Emily Fox was the only player to score in double figures in each game with 17 points in the Jan. 7, 2016 meeting that followed a 16-point effort on the Dec. 11, 2015 game as CU earned 78-42 and 77-54 wins respectively.
• The largest margin of victory came in the Jan. 29, 2015 matchup as the Lady Tigers earned an 87-38 victory in Nashville behind 19 points from Lindey Young and 15, 12, and 12 off the bench from Nathalie Felipe, Lauren Turner, and Fox.
• The first ever meeting came earlier in that month of January when Campbellsville dropped a series-high point total of 96 on Jan. 12 against the Bulldogs as Chelsea Craig and Macie Spence led the way with 13 points as Lexxus Graham added 10.

 
#WEARENUMBERONE

• For the first time since 2015-16, CU women's basketball is the top team in the NAIA Coaches' Poll after receiving 219 voting points and eight of the nine first place votes this past Wednesday.
• In 2015-16, the Lady Tigers were the preseason No. 1 team and also earned the No. 1 ranking twice in January after initially dropping down the rankings during the early part of the season.
• Campbellsville's 11-0 start is the best start to a season for the Lady Tigers since 2014-15 when they started 10-0 then suffered their first loss of the season to Lindsey Wilson in a game played on the first week of December.
• That 2014-15 season led to the Lady Tigers reaching the National Championship game and finishing with a 33-4 record, which led to the following season's preseason No. 1 ranking in the NAIA Coaches' Poll.

 
SCOUTING FISK

• The Bulldogs are an NAIA Division II Independent with a current recorded record of 2-10 according to Dakstats with their two wins coming against Cumberland University and Morris (S.C.) in back-to-back games in November.
• Fisk struggles on the offensive end, only averaging 55.9 points per game and a -21.6 scoring margin through their 12 recorded games this season.
• The Bulldogs are a strong rebounding team, averaging 42.2 rebounds per game but get outrebounded by 7.3 boards per game.
• Ileah Chambly leads Fisk in scoring at 10.4 points per game and in rebounding with a strong 11.4 rebounds per game average.

 
TIGER CLAWZ

• Campbellsville is the No. 1 assisting team in NAIA Division I with a team total of 234 so far on the season behind starting point guard Caitlin Hall's 75 assists, good for No. 2 individually in that category.
• Forcing turnovers has been a big part of the CU game plan through the early portion of the schedule as they force their opponents into 27.6 turnovers per game and rank third in NAIA DI in total steals at 188 this season.
• Savannah Gregory has maintained her strong defensive prowess this season with 35 steals so far, good for eighth in the NAIA, through nine games for a 2.9 steals per game average, leading CU in that category.
• Lexy Lake has shown to pick up her outside shooting game this season as she leads the NAIA in three-pointers made at 42 so far this season.
• She is only nine away from tying her season total three pointers from last year as she's also boosted her playing time from 13.4 to 22.7 minutes per game.

 
INDIVIDUAL MILESTONES WATCH

• Upper classmen in the CU starting lineup have been and will be climbing the all-time leader boards in the history of Lady Tiger basketball.
• Starting with Madison Faulkner joining the 1,000-point club, she now sits at 32nd on the all-time scoring list and will likely have a teammate join her on that list as Savannah Gregory currently sits at 930 career points.
• Gregory is also in the top-six on the career steals list as she is currently at 263, just three behind Beth Grant for fifth all-time.
• Senior guard Caitlin Hall currently has 496 career assists, good for sixth place and just four away from becoming the sixth player to reach 500 assists in program history.

 
1,000-WIN PLATEAU

• In the 45th season of Lady Tiger basketball history, Campbellsville reached a milestone that had only been accomplished twice before in the history of NAIA women's basketball, win 1,000 games as a program.
• The monumental win came in CU's 91-59 win over Martin Methodist College last Saturday in Pulaski, Tenn. as part of the MSC/SSAC Crossover Challenge.
• Campbellsville joins Wayland Baptist and Union University (Tenn.) as the only other programs to reach the feat as Union is no longer part of the NAIA after moving to the NCAA Division II level.

 
UP NEXT FOR CU

• Campbellsville will finish the home-and-home series with Fisk University on Saturday as CU will host Fisk at the Powell Athletic Center on Dec. 14.