Women's Basketball vs. Wellesley
Wednesday, January 31 | 6 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 54-15 all-time against Wellesley in a series that dates back to the 1976-77 campaign.
•    The Beavers have won 11 straight games and 24 of their last 26 outings versus the Blue going back to 2008.
•    Just three of the last 16 contests between Babson and Wellesley have been decided by single digits. 
•    Wednesday's contest will be the first played between the teams in Babson Park since 2020.

LAST MEETING
•    Megan Bauman '23 finished with 15 points and six assists and Samantha Smith '23 posted a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds to help Babson defeat the Blue, 77-49, on February 8, 2023, in Wellesley, Mass. 
•    Senior Madison Odam added 12 points on 6-of-9 shooting and eight boards as the Beavers opened the game with a 20-6 run and then used a 32-point third quarter to pull away. 
•    Jiyun Chae scored a game-high 16 points for Wellesley, which shot just 31.3 percent in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (9-10, 3-2 NEWMAC) has won a season-high three straight games after defeating WPI, 56-43, on Saturday. 
•    Junior Katelyn Mollica scored 13 of her game-high 16 points in the second half and sophomore Allessia Carlo added a career-high 14 points for the Beavers, who took the lead for good by closing the third quarter with a 13-1 run. 
•    Mollica (13.1 pts, 3.2 reb) is shooting 41.6 percent from three-point range and leads the team with 28 steals, first-year Samantha Reale (9.3 pts, 3.6 ast) has scored in double figures in five of the last seven games and sophomore Chloe Perreault (6.6 pts, 6.8 reb) is shooting 47.4 percent and leads the team in rebounds. 
•    The Green and White ranks third in field goal percentage defense (36.7) and is fifth in rebounding margin (+4.8) in conference play. 

SCOUTING THE BLUE
•    Wellesley (7-10, 0-5 NEWMAC) has dropped five straight games and is coming off a 71-41 loss to Coast Guard on Saturday. 
•    Yitzel Serna scored 12 points and grabbed five rebounds and Chae added 10 points and three assists for the Blue, which shot just 26.7 percent.
•    Trinity Barrow (12.7 pts, 6.4 reb, 4.3 ast, 3.2 stl) has scored in double figures in nine of her last 11 outings and missed Saturday's loss, Chae (12.3 pts, 2.7 reb) has scored at least 10 points in four straight games and Mirella Funari is contributing 8.9 points and 5.0 rebounds in 15 starts. 
•    Wellesley is averaging just 51.0 points on 33.4 percent shooting in NEWMAC play and has attempted just 16 free throws over the last three games.

DEFENDING THE DAM
•    In eight home games this winter, the Beavers have held opponents to 51.4 points on 30.4 percent shooting from the floor and just 22.2 percent from beyond the arc. 
•    The Green and White has held four different opponents – WPI last Saturday (28 percent), Smith on January 17 (35.5 percent), Tufts on January 7 (23.3 percent) and No. 3 Rhode Island College on November 26 (32.2 percent) – to their lowest shooting percentages of the season inside the friendly confines of Staake Gymnasium. 
•    Babson allowed fewer than 50 points in four of the eight games and have allowed just two opponents to score better than 60 points. 

MOVING UP THE CHARTS
•    Mollica, who is already fourth in program history with 107 career three-pointers, passed Erin Young '15 for fourth place on the Beavers' single-list in Saturday's victory. 
•    She enters the week with 52 triples this season and needs just three more to match last year's career high of 55 and four to equal the program's single-season record of 56 set by Joanna Maher '03 back in 2001-02. 

RANKING AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS
•    Reale is 18-of-20 at the free throw line and ranks second in NEWMAC play shooting 90 percent.
•    Junior Camilla Silk, who grabbed a career-high 15 boards last Wednesday at Coast Guard, is tied for seventh in conference play pulling down 9.4 rebounds per game, while sophomore Chloe Perreault is 10th averaging 7.4 caroms. 
•    Mollica is 10th in league play in scoring at 13.4 points per game.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers rank 20th in Division III in free throw percentage at 75 percent and have gone 41-of-50 (82 percent) at the charity stripe over the last three games.
•    Babson is 7-1 this season when shooting at least 40 percent from the floor.
•    The Beavers are 8-2 when outrebounding their opponents this winter.
•    The Green and White is 7-0 this season and 45-3 over the last three years when leading at halftime. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Norton, Mass., to take on Wheaton on Saturday at 1 p.m.