BABSON PARK, Mass.—Graduate student
Felix Kloman (Ipswich, Mass.) led three players in double figures with 20 points as Babson College cruised to an 83-50 win over visiting Albertus Magnus College in non-conference men's basketball action on Wednesday afternoon inside Staake Gymnasium.
Babson, which snapped a two-game losing streak, improves to 2-3 on the year. Albertus Magnus has dropped back-to-back games to slip to 2-7 overall.
Graduate student
Alex Stoddard (Wellesley, Mass.) knocked down four three-pointers on the way to scoring a season-high 15 points, while sophomore
NeJohn Fortes (New Bedford, Mass.) added 10 points and five boards for the Beavers. Junior
Timmy O'Toole (Milton, Mass.), who pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds, and first-year
Timmy Mulvey (Reading, Mass.) both chipped in with nine points in the victory.
Graduate student Kevin Crawford (Bridgeport, Conn.) scored 10 points and junior Malcolm Duncanson (West Haven, Conn.) added eight points and three rebounds for the Falcons.
Kloman knocked down a pair of three-pointers and Mulvey and O'Toole each added a triple to help the Green and White race out to a 17-4 lead on a bucket by Fortes less than seven minutes into the contest. Albertus Magnus got four straight points from Duncanson and pulled within 23-18 on a layup by junior Ta'zhon Daniels (New Haven, Conn.) with 8:12 to go in the first half before the Beavers answered with a 13-4 run that included back-to-back three-pointers by Stoddard to stretch the margin back to 36-22 with 1:53 to go in the stanza.
Albertus Magnus cut its deficit to 11 on the first possession of the second half before Babson went on a 23-5 spurt to put the game away. Kloman and senior
Nate Amado (Hanson, Mass.) combined to score the first nine points of the period, Stoddard and junior
Jeremiah Paul (Los Angeles, Calif.) each connected on a three-pointer, and Fortes followed another triple by Kloman with a two-hand slam to make it 62-34 with 11:38 to play.
Mulvey hit back-to-back trifectas as the lead ballooned to 76-43 with 4:31 remaining and Fortes added two free throws on the following possession to give the Green and White its largest advantage of the afternoon at 78-43 under four minutes to go.
The Beavers connected on a season-high 16 three-pointers and shot 45 percent from the floor to go along with a 41-33 edge on the glass. The Falcons shot just 33.3 percent from the floor and finished 3-of-14 (21.4 percent) from beyond the arc.
Babson returns to action on Sunday when it travels to Brandeis at 1 p.m., while Albertus Magnus is off until December 10 when it hosts Lehman at 7 p.m.
GAME NOTES
• The Beavers are now 2-3 all-time against Albertus Magnus and picked up their first victory in the series since 2016.
• Babson's 16 three-point field goals are its most since knocking down 18 in a 96-71 win at Springfield on February 10, 2022.
• The Green and White is now 27-3 since the 2021-22 campaign when holding opponents below 40 percent shooting.
• The Beavers held Albertus Magnus to its lowest scoring output since March 6, 2010, when it put up 49 points in an NCAA Tournament second round loss to DeSales.