Women's Basketball vs. WPI
Saturday, January 27 | 1 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 39-26 all-time against WPI in a series that dates back to the 1976-77 campaign. 
•    The Beavers have won five straight and 11 of their last 15 games against the Engineers since 2015.
•    The Green and White is 10-3 versus WPI inside Staake Gymnasium going back to 2012, which includes a last-second 63-62 victory back in 2022.

LAST MEETING
•    Senior Madison Odam led four players in double figures with a career-high 23 points to help Babson defeat WPI, 86-60, on February 18, 2023, in Worcester, Mass. 
•    Odam went 7-of-8 from the floor and made four three-pointers, Megan Bauman '23 finished with 19 points and seven assists, Samantha Smith '23 scored 17 points and senior Kelly Walsh added 16 points, seven boards and three steals for the Beavers, who raced out to a 32-10 lead. 
•    Lisa Cristiano and Alice Kelly both scored 11 points and McKenna Finken chipped in with 10 points for the Engineers, who got as close as 11 twice early in the third quarter. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (8-10, 2-2 NEWMAC) has won two straight games after rallying for a 68-56 win at Coast Guard on Wednesday night. 
•    First-year Samantha Reale scored 15 points, junior Emily Flynn scored all of her career-high 14 points in the second half and classmate Katelyn Mollica chipped in with 11 points for the Beavers, who outscored the Bears 23-5 over the final eight minutes of the fourth quarter. 
•    Mollica (12.9 pts, 3.2 reb) is shooting 40.7 percent from beyond the arc and ranks third in the league with 48 three-pointers, Reale (9.4 pts, 3.7 reb) has scored in double figures in five of the last six games and junior Abby Miller (6.9 pts, 2.1 ast) is second on the team in assists. 
•    The Green and White is averaging 66.3 points and ranks second in conference games in rebounding margin (+8.0). 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    WPI (9-9, 1-3 NEWMAC) snapped a three-game losing streak with an 84-31 rout of Mount Holyoke on Wednesday night. 
•    Allison Fullem led all players with 14 points, Ally McMorrow and Ava Giansiracusa both scored 12 and Hailey Zembrzuski added 10 points for the Engineers, who built a 41-8 halftime lead to help head coach Cherise Galasso pick up her 400th career win. 
•    Adrianna Niles (12.3 pts, 6.1 reb, 2.1 ast) has scored in double figures in eight of the last nine games, Emmy Allen (11.2 pts, 3.1 reb) is shooting 47.1 percent from the floor and Giansiracusa (8.6 pts, 3.5 reb) is averaging 14.3 points on 51.3 percent shooting over the last four contests. 
•    WPI is averaging 71.8 points on 46.4 percent shooting against its first four NEWMAC foes. 

CELEBRATING A LEGEND
•    Babson will welcome back former head coach Judy Blinstrub for a ceremony celebrating her 39-year career during Saturday's contest. 
•    Blinstrub, who also served as a senior associate athletics director, Babson's senior woman administrator and head soccer coach during her time on campus, retired back in June after amassing a 719-330 record from 1984-2023. 
•    Blinstrub, who ranks 11th in Division III history in wins, led the Beavers to 16 regular season league titles, nine NEWMAC Tournament championships and 23 postseason appearances, and her players earned 17 All-America, 41 all-region and 66 all-conference accolades. 
•    Her teams reached the NCAA Tournament on 12 occasions, advancing to the national quarterfinals in 2010, 2011 and 2023 and the Sweet 16 in 1993, 1994 and 2017. 
•    Blinstrub, who was Babson's head women's soccer coach from 1984-2004, is the only coach in Division III history with over 700 wins in basketball and 200 in soccer. 

BUCKETS OFF THE BENCH
•    In addition to Flynn's 14 points, Miller contributed eight points, four assists and three steals and fellow junior Kiara Simone Davis chipped in with eight points and three rebounds in Wednesday's victory at Coast Guard. 
•    Flynn is averaging 12.0 points on 10-of-15 shooting and has knocked down six three-pointers, while Miller has contributed 8.5 points, 3.0 steals and 2.5 assists over the last two games. 
•    Davis, who started 19 games as a first-year in 2021-22 and was a key contributor off the bench last season, has given the Beavers a boost after making her way back from a knee injury suffered last January. 

CLEANING THE GLASS
•    Junior Camilla Silk pulled down a career-high 15 rebounds and sophomore Chloe Perreault grabbed eight boards to help the Green and White finish with a 45-30 edge on the glass against Coast Guard, which entered Wednesday's contest ranked sixth in Division III in rebounding margin. 
•    Silk ranks third in league play averaging 10.8 rebounds per game and has secured at least nine boards in three of four NEWMAC games. 

MOLLICA HITS MILESTONE
•    Mollica knocked down four triples in Saturday's victory over Salve Regina to become just the fourth player in Babson history to make 100 career three-point field goals. 
•    Her 103 career triples trail only Erin Young '15, who is the program's all-time leader with 190, Caitlin Boulier '08 (172) and Joanna Maher '03 (138). 
•    Mollica is averaging a program-best 2.06 made three-pointers per game and her 48 this winter are good for fifth on the Beavers' single-season list, just eight shy of Maher's record of 56 set during the 2001-02 campaign. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    In seven home games this winter the Beavers are allowing 52.6 points on 30.7 percent shooting.
•    Babson is 14-2 at home against NEWMAC foes going back to the 2021-22 campaign with both losses coming to nationally-ranked Smith.
•    The Beavers are 6-0 on the year when leading at halftime.
•    The Green and White is 6-0 this winter and has won its last 13 games when scoring at least 65 points going back to last February. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers host crosstown rival Wellesley on Wednesday at 6 p.m.