In 34 minutes Campbell scored 16 points to lead the Bears (8-3, 1-0) on 7-of-12 shooting. He also pitched in three assists and four steals and no turnovers. Phillips had 15 points.

“Fred’s really starting to shoot the ball well,” Chappell said. “LeMar is a guy who came back from Christmas with a lot of energy.”

CBU (6-5, 0-1) opened up a five-point lead to begin the game, it would be the biggest lead the Bucs would have, but they would not go away.

With the Bucs up 11-8 early in the first half, UCA went on a 10-0 run to take its first lead of the ball game. Joey Cortez hit a jumper to start the run, then Campbell hit a 3, got a steal and hit a layup, then after another CBU turnover ended the run with another 3.

UCA continued to pour it on for a couple more minutes, pulling out to a 22-14 lead, its biggest of the half. CBU snuck back into the game and tied it five more times before the half ended. The Bears broke the fifth tie with eight seconds left on an Aubrey Bruner jumper to make it 36-34 going into the half.

The Bucs took the lead briefly at the start of the second half when Justin Ray hit a 3 to make it 41-40. The lead didn’t last long as Phillips answered right back with a 3 of his own to put the Bears back up for good with 15: 32 left in the game.

“[CBU] will work you to death,” Chappell said. “This is one of those games where we were barely in the lead throughout and we were able to hold them off.”

UCA opened up its first nine-point lead with 6:53 left, 58-49. CBU cut the lead to 60-55 with 2:42 left. The lead would remain five points until the Bears finally scored again with 33 seconds left. Phillips hit a jumper to make it 62-55 and two Chad Wise free throws with 24 seconds left rounded out the scoring.

Chappell said Bruner was a “spark off the bench” as he finished with 8 points on 3-of-4 shooting. Cortez didn’t have one of his greatest shooting games, going just 2-of-10, but grabbed team highs in rebounds and assists with six and seven, respectively.

“Joey has a little bit of an ankle injury that he suffered in practice on Wednesday,” Chappell said. “He was questionable for tonight’s game. He probably played his best just in the last eight or 10 minutes.”

Weybright led the Bucs in scoring with 23 points on 9-of-16 shooting. He also grabbed six rebounds. Nick Kohs pitched in 14 points and nine boards for CBU, Sam Bradley had 11 points.

The Bears return to the Farris Center on Saturday in a GSC battle with Ouachita Baptist. Tip-off is set for 8 p.m.