Women's Basketball vs. MIT
Wednesday, February 12 | 7:30 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 58-14 all-time against MIT in a series that dates back to the 1976-77 campaign. 
•    The Beavers have won eight of their last 11 games versus the Engineers with six of the victories coming by six points or fewer. 
•    The Green and White has split its last four games with MIT inside Staake Gymnasium since the 2019 NEWMAC Tournament. 
•    The road team has won nine of the last 13 contests between the squads dating back to 2016. 

LAST MEETING
•    Angie Choi scored a game-high 24 points and Alice Hall forced overtime with her first career three-pointer as MIT rallied for a 69-63 win over Babson on February 7, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. 
•    Kamsi Nwogu finished with 20 points and 16 rebounds and Christina Antonakakis scored six of her 15 points in the extra session for the Engineers, who erased a 53-45 deficit over the final 1:53 of regulation. 
•    Sophomore Samantha Reale scored 14 points, junior Chloe Perreault had 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting and senior Camilla Silk posted a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Beavers, who shot 46.2 percent over the final three quarters and overtime. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (12-9, 4-3 NEWMAC) has won three straight games after cruising past Wheaton, 74-52, on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Senior Katelyn Mollica scored a team-high 13 points, Reale contributed 11 points, seven rebounds and three steals, and Silk, senior Emily Flynn and junior Allessia Carlo chipped in with nine points apiece for the Beavers, who built a 37-16 lead early in the second quarter. 
•    Mollica (14.3 pts, 1.8 reb, 1.4 ast) ranks second in Division III with 75 three-pointers and is shooting 43.1 percent from beyond the arc, Reale (11.3 pts, 6.4 reb, 2.4 ast, 2.0 stl) is second in the conference in steals and Flynn (97 pts, 7.3 reb, 2.3 ast) is second in the NEWMAC with seven double-doubles. 
•    Over the last four games, the Green and White has allowed just 54.0 points on 37.5 percent shooting. 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    MIT (10-11, 6-1 NEWMAC) has won six of its last seven games and is coming off an 88-79 victory over Coast Guard on Saturday. 
•    Choi poured in a game-high 32 points and Nwogu added 26 points on 11-of-14 shooting to go along with seven rebounds and three steals for the Engineers, who shot 52.2 percent and led by as many as 16 in the first half after opening the game with a 12-0 run. 
•    Nwogu (15.6 pts, 7.4 reb, 1.7 stl) has scored in double figures in 12 straight games and is shooting a league-best 58.6 percent, Choi (13.1 pts, 4.4 reb, 2.8 ast) has two or more steals in nine of the last 10 contests and Elise Harvey (9.3 pts, 4.9 reb) is averaging 10.2 points on 40.4 percent shooting in NEWMAC play. 
•    MIT is averaging 70.4 points against conference foes and ranks fourth in scoring defense (58.0 points), field goal percentage defense (35.1) and rebounding margin (5.3). 

POSTSEASON PUSH
•    After rallying from a 1-3 start in league play, the Beavers begin the week as part of a three-way tie for fourth place in the standings at 4-3 along with Saturday's opponent Springfield and Salve Regina, which they defeated in late January. 
•    All three squads are chasing first-place Smith (7-0), Emerson (6-1) and MIT (6-1), while Coast Guard, Clark and Wheaton are all 3-4 entering Wednesday's action. 
•    The top eight team qualify for the NEWMAC Tournament, which begins with the quarterfinals on February 26. 

SISTER, SISTER
•    Emily Flynn and her sister, first-year Mary Kate Flynn, combined for 16 points, nine rebounds and four steals in Saturday's victory over Wheaton. 
•    Emily scored six of her nine points in the opening stanza and tied for team-high honors with seven boards, while Mary Kate provided all seven of her points in the second half to go along with a season-high three steals. 

THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER
•    Babson enters the weekend ranked second in Division III shooting 38.2 percent from three-point range while averaging 7.2 trifectas per outing. 
•    Mollica, who owns Babson's single-season (75) and career (199) three-point records, ranks second in Division III in three-pointers per game (3.57) and 13th in three-point percentage (43.1). 
•    Emily Flynn is shooting 40.9 percent from deep and ranks seventh in the NEWMAC with 36 triples on the year. 

TRENDS TO WATCH
•    Reale has at least one steal in 29 of her last 30 games and has six during the Beavers' three-game winning streak. 
•    Carlo is averaging 7.7 points on 42.8 percent shooting over the last six games and has finished with nine or more points on three occasions during this stretch. 
•    Mollica has connected on at least one three-pointer in 19 straight outings.
•    Perreualt is shooting 58.8 percent (10-of-17) from the floor, which includes going 6-of-9 (66.7 percent) from three-point range, over the last five games, while graduate student Toni Thompson is 7-of-12 from the floor (58.3 percent) over the last three contests. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson is 8-2 on the year when holding its opponents below 60 points.
•    The Beavers have outrebounded their foes in 19 of 21 games this winter. 
•    The Green and White is 4-3 on the year in games decided by five points or less. 
•    Babson is 7-0 this season and has won its last 10 games going back to last February when shooting at least 40 percent. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Springfield for a 3 p.m. tip-off.