Men's Basketball vs. Wentworth
Tuesday, November 25 | 6 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 15-3 all-time against Wentworth in a series that dates back to the 1953-54 campaign. 
•    The Beavers have won nine in a row versus the Leopards although the teams have not met since November 1999. 
•    Babson's last two victories in the series came by a total of just three points in 1998 and 1999, while Wentworth is looking for its first win over the Green and White since 1961. 

LAST MEETING
•    Brian McCarthy '02 led a balanced attack with 11 points and Joe Colelli '03 and Liam Needham '01 added nine points apiece to help the Beavers defeated Wentworth 55-54 in overtime on November 30, 1999, in Babson Park. 
•    Sterling Marshall led all scorers with 23 points for the Leopards. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (4-1) is looking to rebound from its first loss of the year after falling 79-62 at UMass Dartmouth on Friday night. 
•    Sophomore Timmy Mulvey scored a team-high 15 points, first-year Thomas Ferdinando added 13 point and five rebounds, and senior Timmy O'Toole provided 12 points on 6-of-8 shooting for the Beavers, who took their only lead of the game at 50-49 with 14:10 to play before getting hit with a 13-0 run by the Corsairs. 
•    Ferdinando (15.6 pts, 3.0 reb, 2.0 ast) has scored in double figures in five straight games and is second on the team with five steals, Mulvey (14.0 pts, 3.4 ast) is first on the team with six steals and is tied for first on the squad in assists, and O'Toole (14.0 pts, 8.4 reb) has two double-doubles and is shooting 74.4 percent from the floor. 
•    The Green and White is averaging 78.0 points on 46.1 percent shooting and owns a +6.4 rebounding margin. 

SCOUTING THE LEOPARDS
•    Wentworth (0-6) has dropped its last 10 games going back to last season and is coming off a 93-75 setback at Bridgewater State on Saturday. 
•    Colin Mannke posted a double-double with career highs of 29 points and 12 rebounds and Russell Dolabany added 10 points and six boards for the Leopards, who finished just 5-of-21 from three-point range. 
•    Mannke (15.3 pts, 8.3 reb) has scored in double figures in five of the first six games and leads the team in scoring and rebounding, Dolabany (10.7 pts, 3.2 reb) is first on the squad with 10 steals and Dylan Olson is averaging 8.7 points and 4.2 rebounds. 
•    Wentworth is averaging 75.0 points but shooting just 34.3 percent, and has allowed 88 points or more in five of its six outings. 

BEAVERS IN THE NCAA RANKINGS
•    O'Toole enters Tuesday's contest ranked sixth in Division III in field goal percentage (74.4) and 32nd in offensive rebounds per game (3.80). 
•    Ferdinando ranks 10th nationally in three-pointers per game (3.80), 14th in total three-point field goals (19) and 41st in three-point percentage (48.7). 
•    Mulvey ranks 34th in three-point field goals (16) and 45th in three-pointers per game (3.20). 

ELITE COMPANY
•    O'Toole is currently one of six players in Babson history with at least 500 rebounds and 100 steals along with Jim Pierrakos '92, Bryant Richards '96, Zach Etten '09, associate head coach Joey Flannery '17 and former teammate Nate Amado '25. 
•    He ranks 16th in program history with 555 rebounds and is currently 18th with 100 steals, and needs just two more blocked shots to join Richards, Flannery and Amado is the only players in school history with at least 500 rebounds, 100 steals and 50 blocks. 

BRENNAN JOINS THE 500-WIN CLUB
•    With the victory over Tufts on November 8, head coach Stephen Brennan became the 42nd coach in Division III history to reach the 500-win milestone. 
•    The 2017 NABC Coach of the Year, Brennan ranks ninth among active Division III coaches in victories, Brennan joins Virginia Wesleyan's Dave Macedo and Trinity's James Cosgrove as the only coaches on the list with a national championship.

BEAVER BITES
•    Ferdinando is the first Babson rookie to score in double figures in five straight games to begin his career since 2009. 
•    Senior Tyler Lauder is averaging a team-high 9.0 rebounds and has pulled down 11 or more boards in three contests this season.
•    Mulvey has made at least one three-pointer in 26 of 29 career games. 
•    Junior Marc Begin II has scored in double figures three times, including a season-high 24 points in the November 8 win over Tufts, and is averaging 4.6 free throw attempts per game. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 2-0 this year and 14-3 dating back to February 2024 inside Staake Gymnasium. 
•    Babson is 3-0 this season and 14-2 since the start of the 2024-25 campaign when outrebounding its opponents. 
•    The Green and White has won 12 consecutive games when making at least 10 three-pointers. 
•    The Beavers have won 10 of their last 11 games when scoring at least 70 points. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson returns to Staake Gymnasium to take on Saint Joseph (Conn.) on Sunday at 1 p.m.