Cameron Downs has accomplished so much during his basketball career at Rutgers-Camden that it’s hard to believe he still has one last season to add to his legacy.
One of the program’s all-time great players, Downs will enter his senior season in 2025-26 placing eighth on the career scoring list (1,206 points) and eighth for career scoring average (16.8 points per game). He also ranks fourth in career free throws (293) seventh in free throw attempts (391) and second in free throw percentage for all players with the NCAA career minimum of 250 successful foul shots (74.9, barely shy of the program record of 75.1).
Downs has started all of his 72 games with the Scarlet Raptors, while compiling 448 rebounds, 112 assists, 97 steals and 43 blocked shots. He is a three-time All-New Jersey Athletic Conference player, was the NJAC Rookie of the Year and three-time NJAC Rookie of the Week as a freshman, has since captured two NJAC Player of the Week honors and has been recognized 11 times as Rutgers-Camden’s Raptor of the Week.
Academics: Member of the Rutgers-Camden Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the 2023 Spring and 2025 Spring semesters.
Basketball 2024-25: NJAC Second Team…Named Rutgers-Camden’s Raptor of the Week on Nov. 25, Dec. 16, Feb. 3 and Feb. 17…Started all 24 Rutgers-Camden games, leading the team in scoring (17.1 ppg) and rebounding (7.2 rpg)…Also led the team with 46 assists…Tied for the team lead with 15 blocked shots…Finished third on the Raptors with 28 steals…Shot 145-for-264 (.549) from the floor…Shot 19-for-82 (.257) from three-point range…Led the team with 101 foul shots in 141 attempts (.716)…Made 19 straight foul shots from Nov. 13-19, hitting the last three against FDU-Florham (Nov. 13), going 8-for-8 against Saint Elizabeth (Nov. 16) and hitting the first eight against Alvernia (Nov. 19)…Scored in double figures in 23 of his 24 games, including eight times with 20 or more points, and added three other games with 19 points apiece…Notched a high of 26 points against both Montclair State (Dec. 14) and Rowan (Jan. 29)…Collected four double-doubles, coming against Hunter (Nov. 21, with 16 points and 13 rebounds), Montclair State (Dec. 14, 26 points and 10 rebounds), William Paterson (Jan. 18, 17 points, 12 rebounds) and The College of New Jersey (Feb. 5, 10 points, 10 rebounds)…Nearly added four more double-doubles, finishing with nine rebounds in games against Rowan (Dec. 4, 19 points), Ramapo (Jan. 25, 22 points), Stockton (Feb. 13, 20 points) and William Paterson (Feb. 15, 19 points)…Tied his career high with six assists against St. Elizabeth (Nov. 16)…Tied his career high with five steals against New Jersey City (Jan. 15)…Tied his career high with three blocked shots against Montclair State (Dec. 14)…Shot 10-for-10 from the foul line against Ramapo (Jan. 25), 9-for-9 against Montclair State (Dec. 14), 8-for-8 against St. Elizabeth (Nov. 16), 11-for-12 against Ramapo (Dec. 7) and 9-for-11 against Alvernia (Nov. 19).
Basketball 2023-24: NJAC Second Team…NJAC Player of the Week on Dec. 4 and Jan. 29…Four-time Rutgers-Camden Raptor of the Week, honored on Nov. 20, Dec. 4, Jan. 1 and Jan. 29…Appeared in 24 games, starting all of them…Led the team in scoring (17.8 points per game) and finished second in rebounding (5.6 rebounds per game)…Also paced the team in steals (45), tied for the club lead in blocked shot (15) and was tied for sixth in assists (34)…Shot 144-for-264 (.545 from the field, including 26-for-76 (.342) from three-point range…Shot 112-for-146 (.767) from the foul line…Scored 426 points overall, the 22nd-highest single-season mark in program history…His 112 successful free throws were the ninth-highest single-season mark…Collected three double-doubles, with 22 points and 10 rebounds against Montclair State (Dec. 2), 19 points and 10 rebounds against Delaware Valley (Dec. 30) and 23 points and 11 rebounds against William Paterson (Jan. 13)…Scored in double figures in every game, including nine games with 20 or more points…Had a season high of 29 points, tying his career high, against Rutgers-Newark (Jan. 27)…Notched 27 points against Moravian (Nov. 18), when he also had one of his four-steal games to tie his career high…Also had four steals against Baruch (Nov. 14) and Ramapo (Jan. 6)…Tied his career high with three blocked shots against Montclair State (Dec. 2), when he had his first double-double of the season…Shot 12-for-18 from the field on his way to his 27 points against Moravian (Nov. 18) and 11-for-19 against Rutgers-Newark (Jan. 27) on the way to his 29 points…Sank double-digit foul shots in three games, including 11-for-13 against William Paterson (Jan. 13) and 10-for-11 against both Rutgers-Newark (Dec. 9) and Stockton (Jan. 24).
Basketball 2022-23: NJAC Rookie of the Year…NJAC Honorable Mention…Named NJAC Rookie of the Week Nov. 28, Jan. 16 and Feb. 13…Named Rutgers-Camden Raptor of the Week on Nov. 28, Jan. 9 and Jan. 16…Started all 24 of his games…Led the team in scoring (15.4 ppg) and finished second on the Scarlet Raptors in rebounding (5.9 rpg)…Led the club in blocked shots (13) and finished third in both assists (32) and steals (24)…Led the team in foul shooting (80-for-104, .769), field goal percentage (132-for-244, .541) and three-point field goal percentage (26-for-62, .419)…Collected four double-doubles with points and rebounds, coming against Cabrini (Nov. 9, with 12 points and 10 boards in his first collegiate game), FDU-Florham (Nov. 27, 21/12), Montclair State (Jan. 21, 12/11) and William Paterson (Feb. 11, 26/15)…Scored in double figures on 19 occasions, including seven times with 20 or more points…Had his first 20-point game with a 21-point effort at FDU-Florham (Nov. 27)…Exploded for his high of 29 points at Kean (Jan. 4), shooting 11-for-16 from the floor (3-for-4 from three-point range) and 4-for-4 from the foul line…Notched back-to-back games of 21 points against New Jersey City (Jan. 11) and 24 against William Paterson (Jan. 14), with the Paterson game featuring 10-for-14 shooting from the foul line…Collected double-digit rebounds on four occasions, with his high of 15 coming in the Feb. 11 Paterson game…Notched his high of six assists against Rowan (Feb. 1), while also adding 22 points…His high of four steals came against FDU-Florham (Nov. 27) and he notched three of his blocked shots against Ramapo (Feb. 4)…Scored in double-digits in his last six games and 12 of the last 13, with six of his 20-point games coming in that span.
Club Teams: Made Different (AAU) and Aim High Panthers (AAU)
High School: Basketball letterman at Pemberton Township High School for Coach Timothy Collura…Named Player of the Year…Two-time All-Conference First Team…1,000-point scorer, finishing with 1,100…Team MVP during his junior and senior seasons…Al Carino All-Star…Burlington County Scholastic League All-Star…Honor Roll…Graduated in 2022.
Personal: Born March 15, 2004…Nicknamed “Cam”…Hobbies include photography and videography…Business Management major at Rutgers-Camden who plans to start his own business…Cameron is the son of Bailey Downs of Burlington.
