Women's Basketball vs. Tufts
Tuesday, November 18 | 7 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 12-20 all-time against Tufts in a series that dates back to the 1982-83 campaign. 
•    The Beavers have won two of their last three games versus the Jumbos after dropping seven in a row in the series from 2015-22. 
•    The Green and White picked up its first win over Tufts at home since 2000 back in 2023. 

LAST MEETING
•    Sofia Gonzalez led three players in double figures with 15 points and Sarah Crossett added 12 points as Tufts used a big third quarter to defeat Babson, 61-50, on November 22, 2024, in Medford, Mass. 
•    Caitlyn O'Boyle came off the bench to score 10 points and grab a game-high 10 rebounds for the Jumbos, who trailed by one at halftime before outscoring the Green and White 23-14 in the third. 
•    Katelyn Mollica '25 scored a game-high 16 points and junior Samantha Reale contributed 13 points, three blocks and three steals for the Beavers, who committed 21 turnovers in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (2-1) concluded its season-opening three-game road trip with a 64-53 loss at Endicott on Friday night. 
•    Reale paced a balanced attack with 13 points while grabbing eight rebounds and first-year Molly Donovan came off the bench to score 12 points for the Beavers, who shot a season-worst 32.3 percent from the floor. 
•    Reale (14.0 pts, 8.0 reb, 2.7 ast, 2.0 stl) leads the team in scoring, rebounding and steals, graduate student Emily Flynn (12.0 pts, 5.7 reb, 3.0 ast) is shooting 54.2 percent from the floor, and senior Chloe Perreault is averaging 10.0 points and 5.3 rebounds. 
•    The Green and White has held its first three opponents to just 54.3 points and boasts an 11.3 rebounding margin. 

SCOUTING THE JUMBOS
•    Tufts (1-1) followed up Saturday's 84-51 rout of Marian (Wis.) with a 66-57 loss at Chicago on Sunday. 
•    Annie Aspesi scored 16 points on 6-of-10 shooting and Crossett added 12 points and five rebounds for the Jumbos, who shot 50 percent from the floor and were tied with under four minutes remaining before the Maroons ended the game with a 9-0 run. 
•    Crossett (12.5 pts, 6.5 reb) and Claire Kolkhorst (12.0 pts, 6.0 reb) are both shooting better than 60 percent over the first two games, Aspesi is averaging 10.0 points on 8-of-15 shooting (53.3 percent) and Tessa Lozner (10.0 pts, 3.0 ast) is tied for first on the team in assists. 
•    Tufts graduated six of its top eight scorers from a team that finished 15-11 and lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last winter. 

IMPACT ROOKIES 
•    One of Donovan and fellow first-year Alyssa Hopps has finished in double figures in scoring off the bench over the Beavers' first three games. 
•    Hopps, who finished with season highs of 11 points and nine rebounds in last week's win at Curry, is averaging 9.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and a team-high 1.3 blocks over her first three games. 
•    Donovan has seen her minutes rise over Babson's first three contests from seven in the season opener to 24 on Friday at Endicott, and is averaging 5.3 points, 1.7 rebounds and one steal. 

LOCKED IN FROM LONG RANGE
•    Perreault and Flynn have combined to connect on 13 of Babson's 26 three-point field goals over the first three games and are shooting a combined 46.4 percent from beyond the arc. 
•    Perreault is 7-of-16 on the season and has made at least one three-pointer going back to February of last season, while Flynn is 6-of-12 from deep on the year and has knocked down two triples in each of her last five outings going back to the 2024-25 campaign. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Reale ranks 11th in program history in steals per game (1.87) and now is just one shy of 100 for her career after finishing with two in Friday's loss at Endicott. 
•    Senior Allessia Carlo recorded season highs of four assists and three steals on Friday at Endicott. 
•    Flynn was 10-of-23 from three-point range over the Beavers' last four home games of last season and reached double figures in scoring in 11 of 13 games inside Staake Gymnasium in 2024-25. 
•    Six different players have reached double figures in scoring at least once over the Beavers' first three contests. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 13-2 going back to the start of last season when holding their opponents below 60 points. 
•    Babson has outrebounded its opponents in 25 of its last 29 games since the start of last year. 
•    The Green and White is 2-0 this season and 27-3 over the last three seasons when leading at halftime. 
•    The Beavers have gone 5-1 in their last six home openers. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson will play the second of three straight home games on Saturday when it hosts Albertus Magnus at 6 p.m.