Women's Basketball at WPI
Saturday, February 1 | 2 p.m. 
Harrington Auditorium | Worcester, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 40-26 all-time against WPI in a series that dates back to the 1976-77 campaign.
•    The Beavers have won six straight and 12 of their last 16 outings versus the Engineers going back to 2015. 
•    The Green and White has been victorious in each of its last four visits to Harrington Auditorium although the teams have met in Worcester just once since 2019.

LAST MEETING
•    Senior Katelyn Mollica scored 13 of her game-high 16 points in the second half as the Beavers pulled away for a 56-43 win over WPI on January 27, 2024, in Babson Park. 
•    Junior Allessia Carlo scored a career-high 14 points and classmate Chloe Perreault added 10 points and seven rebounds for Babson, which turned 16 WPI turnovers into 19 points. 
•    Sofia Santorelli scored 10 points and Adrianna Niles finished with nine points to pace the Engineers, who shot just 28 percent in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS 
•    Babson (9-9, 1-3 NEWMAC) has dropped three of its last four games after suffering a 67-62 loss to Coast Guard on Wednesday night inside Staake Gymnasium. 
•    Mollica matched her career highs with six three-pointers and 24 points, and senior Camilla Silk scored 14 points on 7-of-10 shooting for the Beavers, who built a 13-point lead thanks to a 32-point second quarter before outscored 15-1 over the final 11-plus minutes of the game. 
•    Mollica (15.2 pts, 1.8 reb) ranks first in Division III with 68 three-pointers and is 12th nationally shooting 44.4 percent from beyond the arc, sophomore Samantha Reale (11.7 pts, 6.6 reb, 2.4 ast, 2.1 stl) is tied for fifth in the league with 52 offensive rebounds and senior Emily Flynn (9.8 pts, 7.1 reb, 2.4 ast) leads the team in rebounds while shooting 42.7 percent from the floor. 
•    The Green and White ranks second in Division III in three-point field goal percentage (38.5) and is second in the NEWMAC in rebounding margin (5.8). 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    WPI (8-10, 1-3 NEWMAC) snapped a five-game losing streak with a 64-29 rout of Mount Holyoke on Wednesday night. 
•    Emmy Allyn scored 15 points Caitlyn Dasaro finished with 14 points on 7-of-10 shooting and Ava Giansiracusa contributed nine points and four rebounds for the Engineers, who forced 22 turnovers and limited the Lyons to just 11 points over the first three quarters. 
•    Alice Kelly (11.3 pts, 5.3 reb, 2.5 ast, 1.2 stl) leads the team in scoring and rebounding, Giansiracusa (11.0 pts, 4.7 reb) is shooting 44.5 percent on the year and Allyn is averaging 9.1 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists.
•    WPI ranks second in the NEWMAC in scoring defense allowing just 52.2 points and is holding opponents to 35.9 percent shooting. 

REWRITING THE RECORD BOOK
•    With six three-pointers on Wednesday night, Mollica is now first in program history with 192 career triples passing the previous mark of 190 set by Erin Young '15 from 2011-15. 
•    She also currently ranks first on Babson's all-time list in three-pointers per game (2.46) and three-point field goal percentage (41.3), and her 68 three-pointers this winter matches her own single-season record set last winter.

HISTORY LESSON
•    Babson's 32-point second-quarter outburst on Wednesday against Coast Guard was its highest scoring quarter since putting up 32 points in the first of quarter of an 86-60 win at WPI on February 18, 2023. 
•    Coincidentally, the Beavers shot 13-of-17 from the field (76.5 percent) in each of these contests. 

BABSON TRENDS
•    Six of the Beavers' last nine games going back to December 30 have been decided by seven points or fewer. 
•    Reale is one of three players in the NEWMAC that ranks in the top 10 in both steals and offensive rebounds along with Sofia Neary of Salve Regina and Alex Twomey of Mount Holyoke. She has at least one steal in 26 of her last 27 games and has pulled down three or more offensive boards in eight of he last 10 contests. 
•    Mollica is 33-of-56 (58.9 percent) from three-point range over the last seven games and has knocked down multiple triples in 16 straight outings dating back to November 13. 
•    Flynn has reached double figures in scoring in eight of the last 10 games and leads the Beavers with six double-doubles. 
•    First-year Madison Hart played a season-high 20 minutes against Coast Guard and contributed five points, two rebounds, one assist and one steal.
•    First-year Julia St. Laurent dished out a season-high four assists to go along with three points and three boards in the loss to Coast Guard. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 6-3 in their last nine NEWMAC road games going back to January 24 of last season.
•    Babson is 8-2 when leading at the end of the first quarter and 17-3 over the last two seasons when ahead at halftime. 
•    The Beavers are 6-2 this winter when holding their opponents below 60 points. 
•    The Green and White is 3-2 this season in games decided by five points or less. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson heads across town to face Wellesley at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.