Men's Basketball vs. Coast Guard
NEWMAC Tournament Quarterfinal
Tuesday, February 25 | 7 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 65-28 all-time against Coast Guard in a series that dates back to the 1972-73 campaign.
•    The Beavers have won 25 of their last 27 games versus the Bears and completed a sweep of this year's regular season series on Saturday.. 
•    The Green and White has won its last five games in the series at home and is 13-1 against Coast Guard inside Staake Gymnasium since 2012. 
•    Two of Babson's last four wins over the Bears have come by two points or less. 

POSTSEASON HISTORY
•    After going 13 years between conference tournament matches, Babson and Coast Guard will meet in the NEWMAC quarterfinals for the second year in a row on Tuesday.  
•    Babson is just 2-5 all-time in the postseason against Coast Guard, which includes a conference quarterfinal wins in 2004 and 2024, and losses in 1999, 2007 and 2011, all of which came inside Staake Gymnasium. 
•    The Beavers also dropped a pair of CAC Tournament games to the Bears in 1994 and 1995. 

LAST MEETING
•    First-year Timmy Mulvey scored 14 points on 6-of-11 shooting to lead three players in double figures as the Beavers defeated Coast Guard, 77-59, on Saturday afternoon in Babson Park. 
•    Graduate student Felix Kloman scored nine of his 11 points in the second half and first-year Ryan Frauenheim added 10 points and four assists for Babson, which shot 60 percent on its two-point field goal attempts. 
•    Declan Rooney scored 14 points and Colin Huang contributed 11 points for the Bears, who shot just 33.3 percent and finished 5-of-20 from beyond the arc in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Third-seeded Babson (16-9) enters the conference tournament having won three straight and four of its last five games since February 5. 
•    The Beavers have captured back-to-back NEWMAC championships and are seeking a spot in the conference semifinals for the 12th time in the last 13 tournaments dating back to 2012. 
•    Senior Nate Amado (18.5 pts, 8.2 reb, 2.9 ast) ranks first in the league in scoring, second in rebounding and is fourth shooting 51.3 percent from the field, Kloman (17.9 pts, 3.7 reb, 2.5 ast) is second in the conference in scoring and is 14-of-21 (66.7 percent) shooting over the last two games, and graduate student Alex Stoddard (10.7 pts, 3.3 reb) scored in double figures nine times during NEWMAC play. 
•    The Green and White ranks second in conference play in scoring offense averaging 75.4 points, third in field goal percentage (44.3) and is turning the ball over on just 15.1 percent of its possessions. 

SCOUTING THE BEARS
•    Sixth-seeded Coast Guard (10-15) won three of its final five regular season games and a three-way tiebreaker to reach the conference tournament for the second year in a row. 
•    The Bears, who missed the league playoffs in both 2022 and 2023, captured its last NEWMAC title as the fifth seed back in 2020.
•    Luke Farrell (14.1 pts, 5.9 reb, 1.4 blocks) ranks fourth in the conference shooting 49.8 percent, Rooney (14.0 pts, 4.7 reb, 3.0 ast) is averaging 15.4 points over his last five outings and Ben Yagey (9.4 pts, 2.6 reb) is third on the team in scoring but is just 6-of-25 shooting over the last four contests. 
•    Coast Guard ranks fourth in the NEWMAC in scoring offense averaging 71.5 points and leads the conference in made free throws per game (15.38) but is last in rebounding margin (-4.9). 

HERE WE GO AGAIN
•    For the second year in a row, Babson and Coast Guard will meet in Tuesday's quarterfinals after facing each other in Saturday's regular season finale. 
•    The Beavers suffered a 67-55 road loss to end the regular season last winter before defeating the Bears, 87-76, at home in the quarterfinals. 
•    The back-to-back games to end the regular season and start the playoffs had not happened since 2015 when the Green and White beat MIT 62-51 in the regular season finale and 57-47 a week later in the NEWMAC semifinals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP PEDIGREE
•    The Beavers, who have captured six conference championships (2002, 2004, 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024) and made four straight NCAA Tournament appearances under the direction of head coach Stephen Brennan, are looking to become the first team in NEWMAC history to win three straight titles. 
•    To return to the NCAA Tournament, the Green and White will need to win three games in five days for the second year in a row while likely winning twice on the road for the third consecutive season. 
•    Along with its quest for a third straight conference title, Babson has twice made four straight NCAA appearances (2014-17, 2020-24) but has never gone in five consecutive seasons. 

THREE AT A TIME
•    For the first time in program history, Babson has three players that have made at least 50 three-pointers this winter in Kloman (54), Stoddard (52) and Mulvey (52). 
•    All three rank among the top eight in the NEWMAC while combining to shoot 38 percent on the year. 
•    Back in 2015-16, the trio of associate head coach Joey Flannery '17, Sam Bohmiller '17 and Nick Comenale '18 each made at least 40 three-pointers and combined to knock down 147 triples while helping Babson reach the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. 

TOURNAMENT TESTED
•    In nine career NEWMAC and NCAA Tournament games, Amado is averaging 19.2 points and 7.9 rebounds while posting three double-doubles and shooting 46.4 percent. 
•    Senior David Cross scored a career-high 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting and averaged 11.8 points in last year's postseason run. 
•    Junior Timmy O'Toole, who averaged 7.0 points and 6.8 rebounds in the 2024 postseason, and classmate Tyler Lauder have both started all seven of Babson's postseason contests over the last two years. 
•    Stoddard scored 18 points in last year's NESCAC Tournament final while at Williams and had 13 points in the Ephs' first round NCAA Tournament victory over DeSales. 

497 AND COUNTING
•    Brennan, who is now in his 30th season as the head coach at Babson, enters Tuesday's contest ranked 11th among active Division III coaches with 497 career wins. 
•    The 2017 NABC Division III Coach of the Year, Brennan has guided the Beavers to 11 NCAA Tournament appearances, which includes the program's first trip to the Final Four in 2015 and first national championship in 2017. 

TRENDS AGAINST THE BEARS
•    Mulvey averaged 13.0 points on 50 percent shooting (11-of-22) in two regular season games against Coast Guard, while Frauenheim averaged 11.0 points, 3.0 assists and 2.0 steals in the two matchups. 
•    Amado scored 24 points and was 8-of-8 at the free throw line in the Beavers' 73-71 victory at Coast Guard on January 23. 
•    Babson averaged 1.08 points per possession in the regular season against the Bears despite shooting just 26.1 percent (12-of-46) from three-point range. 
•    The Green and White held the Bears to 0.95 points per possession on just 36.2 percent shooting. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Amado, who is one of just five players in program history with at least 1,500 points and 650 rebounds, has scored in double figures in 19 of the last 20 games and is second in the league with a career-high eight double-doubles. 
•    Mulvey's 50 three-pointers are just four shy of the program's freshman record of 56 set by Michael Kingsley '97 in 1993-94 and matched by Mark Giovino '98 in 1994-95. 
•    Kloman, who is averaging 15.7 points in six games since returning from injury, made a career-high six three-pointers at Salve Regina on February 15 and has at least on triple in all 21 games this winter.
•    O'Toole is second among NEWMAC players in both offensive rebounds (67) and offensive boards per game (2.7). 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 12-2 when leading at halftime this season.
•    Babson is 8-0 this winter and 15-1 over the last two years when holding its opponents below 40 percent shooting.
•    The Green and White is 12-1 on the season when allowing fewer than 70 points. 
•    Babson is 15-2 going back to January of last year when making at least nine three-pointers.
•    The Beavers are 9-8 in the quarterfinal round of the NEWMAC Tournament, which includes a 7-4 record inside Staake Gymnasium. 
•    The Green and White has won 12 of its last 14 games at home going back to February of last season.

UP NEXT
•    The winner of Tuesday's quarterfinal travels to second-seeded Clark for a NEWMAC semifinal on Thursday at 7 p.m.