Men's Basketball vs. Brandeis
Saturday, November 8 | 7 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    The Babson men's basketball team will get its 2025-26 campaign underway on Saturday night when it hosts Brandeis inside Staake Gymnasium. 
•    The Beavers have not opened the season against the Judges since 1980. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 24-24 all-time against Brandeis in a series that dates back to the 1974-75 campaign. 
•    The Beavers have won three straight and six of the last eight meetings between the teams since 2013.
•    The Green and White has beaten the Judges just once in six tries inside Staake Gymnasium going back to 2005 although the lone victory came two years ago.
•    Just two of the last eight games between Babson and Brandeis have been decided by eight points or less, a 72-65 win by the Judges in 2021 and an 89-81 triumph by the Beavers in 2017. 

LAST MEETING
•    Felix Kloman M'25 led three players in double figures with 22 points as Babson defeated Brandeis, 77-63, on December 1, 2024, in Waltham, Mass. 
•    Nate Amado '25 posted a double-double with 18 points and 13 rebounds and senior Timmy O'Toole added 12 points and eight boards for the Beavers, who finished with a 42-27 edge on the glass. 
•    Toby Harris paced four players in double figures with 17 points on 6-of-10 shooting and Jai Deshpande added 12 points for the Judges, who shot just 37.9 percent in the loss. 

LOOKING BACK ON 2024-25
•    Babson shook off a 3-4 start by handing then-No. 11 WPI, then-No. 6 Wooster and eventual Division III national champions Trinity their first losses of the season in the span of four games between December 7-January 4. 
•    The Beavers suffered four of their six losses in NEWMAC play by six points or less and were upset by Coast Guard in the quarterfinal round of the conference tournament.
•    The Green and White must replace its top three scorers, which includes a pair of all-conference performers in Nate Amado '25 (18.6 pts, 8.2 reb, 2.8 ast) and Felix Kloman M'25 (17.7 pts, 3.8 reb, 2.5 ast). 
 
SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson returns two starters and 12 players in all from a team that finished 16-10 overall and 10-6 in the NEWMAC last winter. 
•    Sophomore Timmy Mulvey earned NEWMAC Rookie of the Year honors after averaging 9.5 points and 2.5 assists to go along with a 1.91 assist-to-turnover ratio, while O'Toole contributed 5.6 points on 51.8 percent shooting and 5.9 rebounds. 
•    First-year Ryan Frauenheim (5.3 pts, 1.5 ast) scored a season-high 17 points in the team's conference tournament loss, while seniors Tyler Lauder (2.1 pts, 3.0 reb) and Jeremaih Paul (1.8 pts, 1.0 reb) both started 10 games in the frontcourt last winter. 
•    The Green and White averaged 75.9 points on 44.9 percent shooting and committed just 11.4 turnovers per contest in 2024-25. 

SCOUTING THE JUDGES
•    Brandeis returns eight players including four of its top seven scorers from a team that went 15-11 in 2024-25. 
•    Elias Rodl (16.7 pts, 5.0 reb) shot 57 percent from the floor and 49.1 percent from long range, Jai Deshpande averaged 7.3 points over the first eight games before suffering a season-ending injury, and Jake Bender contributed 6.8 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists while starting 21 of 22 games. 
•    Matthew Cadogan averaged 6.4 points in 20 contests, while Adean Using (5.4 pts, 6.0 reb, 3.9 ast) led the team in rebounding, was second in assists and shot 54.8 percent from the floor. 
•    The Judges averaged 82.7 points last winter and ranked 12th in Division III in three-pointers per game (10.8), 14th in three-point percentage (38.0) and 18th in overall field goal percentage (48.0). 

POLL RESULTS 
•    Coming off last year's third-place finish, the Beavers were picked to come in second in the NEWMAC preseason coaches' poll back in late October. 
•    One of four program's to picked first, Babson received a pair of first-place votes to finish behind defending NEWMAC regular season champions WPI and ahead of third-place Clark, which defeated the Engineers in last season's conference tournament final. 

BRENNAN CLOSES IN ON 500 WINS
•    Entering his 31st season as the head coach at Babson, Stephen Brennan is just three wins shy of 500 for his career. 
•    The 2017 NABC Division III Coach of the Year, Brennan ranks first among NEWMAC coaches and ninth among active Division III coaches in wins. 
•    He has guided the Beavers to eight NCAA Tournament appearances over the last 12 years, which includes capturing the program's first national championship in 2017 after reaching the national semifinals in 2015. 

PORTAL ADDITIONS
•    Along with 12 veterans returning, Babson has added a pair of transfers in junior Marc Begin II from Bates and sophomore Gavin Aydelotte from Lincoln Memorial. 
•    Begin was limited to just 12 games last season due to injury, averaging 8.2 points and 2.8 rebounds following a freshman campaign that saw him produced 16.6 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.4 assists on the way to earning NESCAC Rookie of the Year honors. 
•    Aydelotte saw action in six games for a Lincoln Memorial program that lost in the South Atlantica Conference Tournament final and earned a spot in the Division II NCAA Tournament. 

YOUTH MOVEMENT
•    Mulvey, who became the Beavers' first NEWMAC Rookie of the Year selection since current associate head coach Joey Flannery '17 won the award in 2014, was one of four freshmen to crack the rotation last season along with Frauenheim, Vaughn Foster and Logan Murphy. 
•    Frauenheim reached double figures in scoring four times and had a 1.77 assist-to-turnover ratio in 26 games, Foster (3.1 pts) shot 59.1 percent from the floor in 23 appearances and Murphy (2.6 pts) saw action in 16 games shooting 51.9 percent. 
•    Mulvey started 21 of 24 games and his 53 three-point field goals were just three shy of the program's freshman record and the most by a Babson rookie since the 1994-95 season. 

CLEANING THE GLASS
•    O'Toole, who finished second in the NEWMAC last winter with 68 offensive rebounds, enters the 2025-26 campaign ranked 17th on Babson's all-time list with 513 boards. 
•    He grabbed a career-high 73 offensive rebounds in 2023-24 and 71 as a rookie in 2022-23 giving him the three highest individual totals since Isaiah Nelsen '17 hauled down 84 back in 2015-16. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers went 9-3 at home last winter and are 26-8 inside Staake Gymnasium since the start of the 2022-23 season.
•    Babson was 8-0 last winter when holding its opponents below 40 percent shooting. 
•    The Green and White was 11-2 a season ago when outrebounding its foes. 
•    The Beavers were a perfect 8-0 last year when making at least 10 three-pointers. 
 
UP NEXT
•    Babson travels to New Haven, Conn., to face Albertus Magnus at 7 p.m. on November 11.