{"id":888362,"date":"2026-09-11T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888362\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:02:10","slug":"camels-announce-non-conference-schedule-campbell-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888362\/","title":{"rendered":"Camels announce non-conference schedule &#8211; Campbell University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     BUIES CREEK &#8211; The Fighting Camels have released the 2026-27 non-conference schedule to kick off the Jimmie Williams era, featuring 14 games before CAA play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited about the way this year&#8217;s non-conference schedule came together. The slate features a great mix of power conference teams and talented mid-majors, giving us the opportunity to go up against some of the nation&#8217;s premier programs. This schedule will provide plenty of additional motivation for fall practice, knowing we&#8217;ll need to be ready to go against 14 quality opponents throughout November and December.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With 10 games across North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee we look forward to the chance to play in front of Camel Nation in so many of our non-conference games.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2026-27 campaign begins Nov. 2 at NC State, renewing the local series with the Wolfpack for the first time since 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Camels then visit Western Michigan (Nov. 8) in a return trip from last year&#8217;s home game, and East Tennessee State (Nov. 11) prior to the home opener.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The home opener falls on Saturday, Nov. 14 against USC Upstate, a former Big South conference foe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Campbell then heads to the Great Plains region to face off against Oklahoma (Nov. 18) and Kansas State (Nov. 20).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Camels face Coastal Carolina on Nov. 24 before a week&#8217;s break around Thanksgiving, resuming action on Dec. 2 at Longwood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Campbell&#8217;s second non-conference home game is set for Dec. 5 against Norfolk State.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Non-conference play wraps up with five straight road contests, the first four staying in North Carolina. Campbell faces Davidson (Dec. 9), Gardner-Webb (Dec. 12), Duke (Dec. 15), and ECU (Dec. 18). The trip to Durham and Cameron Indoor Stadium will be Campbell&#8217;s first since 2021, in what was a narrow nine-point defeat for the Camels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The final non-conference game sends Campbell to Mississippi State on Dec. 28. The Bulldogs are Campbell&#8217;s first SEC opponent since Nov. 20, 2010 when Campbell downed Auburn 61-54.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 14-game non-conference schedule leads into the CAA season, beginning on New Year&#8217;s Eve at UNCW.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Follow @GoCamelsMBB on social media for continued team updates and content as the season approaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; BUIES CREEK &#8211; The Fighting Camels have released the 2026-27 non-conference schedule to kick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-888362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}