Men's Basketball vs. Springfield
Tuesday, January 14 | 7 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 30-43 all-time against Springfield in a series that dates back to the 1976-77 campaign.
•    The Beavers have won five of the last six meetings against the Pride going back to 2022. 
•    The Green and White has won three straight and nine of the last 11 contests between the teams inside Staake Gymnasium since 2015. 
•    Despite trading blowouts last year, seven of the last 10 games between Babson and Springfield have been decided by single digits or in overtime going back to the 2018-19 season. 

LAST MEETING
•    Steph Baxter M'24 scored a game-high 19 points and junior Timmy O'Toole finished with 13 points, 11 rebounds and three steals to help the Beavers defeat Springfield, 67-44, on February, 3, 2024, in Babson Park. 
•    Senior David Cross added 12 points and sophomore NeJohn Fortes contributed nine points and eight rebounds for Babson, which used a 22-8 run midway through the second half to put the game away. 
•    Curtis Blische recorded 13 points and seven rebounds, while Xoren Livingston and Zander Robinson both scored seven points for the Pride, which held the Green and White without a field goal over the first eight minutes of the game. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (8-5, 2-2 NEWMAC) has won five of its last six games and is coming off a 103-68 rout of MIT on Saturday in Cambridge. 
•    Graduate student Felix Kloman led all scorers with 26 points, senior Nate Amado added 16 points, seven rebounds and four assists, and first-year Timmy Mulvey chipped in with 11 points for the Beavers, who shot a season-best 57.5 percent and used a 29-8 run that spanned parts of both halves to pull away. 
•    Kloman (19.8 pts, 4.3 reb, 2.5 ast, 1.5 blocks) leads the conference in scoring and has put up at least 15 points in 11 straight outings, Amado (18.3 pts, 8.1 reb) ranks second in the NEWMAC in scoring and rebounding and second on the team in assists and steals, and Mulvey (9.6 pts, 3.2 ast) is shooting 43.1 percent from three-point range. 
•    The Green and White, which leads the NEWMAC in scoring offense average 77.5 points, ranks ninth in Division III in adjusted efficiency margin and 14th in adjusted offense per The D3 Datacast. 

SCOUTING THE PRIDE
•    Springfield (5-7, 2-1 NEWMAC) has dropped three of its last four games and is coming off a 79-69 loss to Salve Regina on Saturday. 
•    Robinson scored a team-high 17 points, Cedric Rodriguez finished with 11 points and Jarron Flynn and Josh Hartley added nine points apiece for the Pride, which shot 46 percent but was outscored 46-28 in the paint. 
•    Flynn (14.2 pts, 4.9 reb, 1.9 stl) is shooting 57.6 percent and leads the team in scoring and steals, Livingston (12.3 pts, 3.6 reb) has scored in double figures seven times and has at least one three-pointer in 10 of 12 games, and Josiah Evely is averaging 9.4 points and 4.5 rebounds while shooting 47.2 percent on the year. 
•    Springfield, which is just 1-11 on the road since last January, has shot at least 45 percent from the floor in six of its last seven outings. 

OFFENSIVE FIREWORKS
•    For the first time since December 5-6, 1997, the Green and White enters Tuesday's game having scored at least 50 points in three consecutive halves going back to last Wednesday's loss at  Clark. 
•    The Beavers averaged a season-best 1.39 points per possession on Saturday and set a new season high on two-point field goals at 64.4 percent (29-of-45) in addition to knocking down 13 three-pointers. 
•    Babson got points from 13 different players, seven different guys connected on a three-pointer and first-years Logan Murphy (8 points) and Theo Lamb (6 points) both recorded new season highs off the bench. 
•    Back in 1997, the Beavers followed a 52-point second half against Occidental by putting up 53 first-half points and 65 in the second half of a 118-101 win over Washington (Mo.) at the Lopata Classic. 

MOVING UP THE CHARTS
•    One of just seven players in program history with more than 1,250 points and 550 rebounds, Amado passed Zach Etten '09 on Saturday and now ranks 13th on the all-time scoring list with 1,276 points. 
•     His 74 blocked shots rank fifth on the career list and he is just one shy of matching Bradley Jacks '18 for fourth place. 
•    Amado also is just three three-pointers away from becoming the 13th player in program history with 100 in his career. 

PRODUCING AGAINST THE PRIDE
•    Cross averaged 12.5 points while going 5-of-8 from three-point range in two games versus Springfield last winter. 
•    Amado, who has missed three of the Beavers' last four games against Springfield, posted a double-double with 20 points and 10 rebounds in an 82-73 win on February 8, 2023, and is averaging 14.0 points on 48.3 percent shooting and 6.3 rebounds in three career outings versus the Pride. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 7-1 over their last eight NEWMAC home games going back to January 6 of last season. 
•    Babson is 8-2 on the year when holding its opponents below 50 percent shooting. 
•    The Green and White is 5-0 this season and has won its last six games when making at least 10 three-pointers. 
•    Babson is 6-1 this winter when outrebounding its opponents. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Norton, Mass., to meet Wheaton on Thursday at 7 p.m.