SLIPPERY ROCK— Kyle Camper won't be camping out long in a Slippery Rock University basketball uniform, so his goal is quick and to the point.

"Win a championship," Camper said. "That's the only goal that matters."

The 6-foot-2 senior point guard is a transfer from Division IIona College of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. He averaged 7.8 points, 3.9 assists and 3.2 rebounds for the Gaels during their 12-20 season of last year.

Camper graduated from Iona with a degree in sociology, but with a year of basketball eligibility remaining he started looking around.

"We had an edge in the fact that I had recruited him once before and my assistant (Jareem Dowling) had coached him before," first-year SRU coach Kevin Reynolds said.

Dowling was an assistant coach on the Cecil (Md.) Community College team that finished 32-2 in 2005-06 and won the NJCAA Division IInational championship. Camper averaged 11.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 8.9 assists for that team.

Reynolds was coaching at the University of Denver at the time and wanted Camper to join that program.

"We went after him hard,"Reynolds said. "It came down to us, Iona, East Carolina and Maryland, and he chose Iona.

"I missed out on him the first time around, but I'm sure glad I got him the second time around."

Reynolds is trying to turn around a SRU basketball program that's had one winning season since 1991. He's off to a 3-0 start, though two of those wins have come against regional campus teams from Ohio.

Still, The Rock scored more than 100 points in both of those games, including a school-record 128 Saturday against Ohio State-Mansfield. SRU hosts 2-0 Ashland (Ohio) at 7 p.m. today.

"It's not about what was here before,"Camper said. "It's about what's here now. We have a lot of talent on this team.

"I came here because I like to play the quick-paced, run-and-gun style. It's fun and it's how I play the game best."

Besides bringing himself to the program, Camper recommended fellow transfers Maron Brown and Maurice Douglas to Reynolds and was a teammate of Denell Stephens at Cecil.

Stephens is averaging 21 points per game, and Brown has scored more than 20 points in two straight games and is a double-digit rebounder.

Douglas sank seven 3-pointers in the record-setting win over OSU-Mansfield.

"Kyle has plenty to do with a lot of the talent we've assembled here,"Reynolds said.

Camper's numbers at this point in the season are mind-boggling. He is averaging four points per game, but 13.3 assists per contest.

He has 40 assists, seven steals, is tied for second on the team with 10 defensive rebounds and has turned the ball over only five times.

"There are plenty of scorers out on the floor with me,"Camper said. "I like to get the ball into their hands in situations where they can put the ball in the basket.

"I'll pass it off. They can do the work."

Camper is working toward a master's degree in parks and recreation.

In a 105-84 exhibition loss to Providence of the Big East to open the season, Camper had 10 assists and no turnovers.

"And they pressed us the entire game,"Reynolds said. "That's the kind of ball-handling skills this guy has."

"The way we played against Providence gave this team a lot of confidence,"Camper said. "No one (in the PSAC) knows who we are and we're not expected to do much.

"But we're expecting to do a lot."