Men's Basketball vs. Clark
Wednesday, January 7 | 6 p.m.
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 42-42 all-time against Clark in a series that dates all the way back to the 1934-35 campaign.
•    The Beavers have won seven of the last 10 games between the teams but were swept by the Cougars for the first time since 2013 last winter. 
•    The Green and White has dropped its last two games versus Clark inside Staake Gymnasium on the heels of winning eight in a row at home in the series from 2014-23. 
•    Just one of the last 11 meetings between the Beavers and Cougars in Babson Park has been decided by fewer than 13 points.

LAST MEETING
•    Jordan Richard drained seven three-pointers on the way to scoring a game-high 23 points and Bruce Saintilus added 17 points and five assists as Clark pulled away for a 91-70 win over the Beavers on February 1, 2025, in Babson Park. 
•    Isaiah Taylor contributed 16 points and five steals and Kekoa McCardle chipped in with 10 points for the Cougars, who shot 75 percent from beyond the arc (15-of-20) and went on a 30-8 run early in the second half to build a 21-point lead with under seven minutes to play. 
•    Nate Amado '25 scored 21 points on 9-of-13 shooting and Felix Kloman M'25 came off the bench to provide 15 points and three steals for Babson, who led by as many as nine in the early going but was outscored 53-35 in the second half. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (6-4, 0-1) has dropped three consecutive games, all to nationally-ranked foes, after suffering an 83-77 OT loss at No. 22 Johns Hopkins last Wednesday. 
•    First-year Thomas Ferdinando led four players in double figures with a season-high 22 points, sophomore Timmy Mulvey scored 17 to go along with four assists and classmate Logan Murphy and first-year Robby Fiore chipped in with 11 and 10 points, respectively, for the Beavers, who shot 50 percent from the floor but struggled at the free throw line finishing 11-of-20 (55 percent). 
•    Mulvey (14.4 pts, 3.0 ast, 2.9 reb) leads the team in assists has scored in double figures in nine of the first 10 games this season, Ferdinando (13.9 pts, 3.7 reb, 2.3 ast) is shooting 49.3 percent from beyond the arc, and junior Marc Begin II (10.0 pts, 2.4 reb) is averaging 4.6 free throw attempts per game. 
•    The Green and White is averaging 75.6 points on 44.9 percent shooting and ranks 36th in Division III in three-pointers per game (10.2). 

SCOUTING THE COUGARS
•    Clark (6-5, 1-1 NEWMAC) has dropped back-to-back games to nationally-ranked opponents by a total of six points after suffering a 79-77 loss at No. 21 Tufts last Wednesday. 
•    Boluwasefe John scored 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting to go along with six rebounds, Aliaun Iscandari provided 18 points off the bench and Reid Neumann added 12 points for the Cougars, who shot 50 percent from the floor and led by five with 1:48 remaining before giving up a closing 7-0 run to the Jumbos. 
•    Iscandari (16.0 pts, 3.4 reb, 2.5 stl) leads the team in steals and has scored in double figures nine times in 11 games, John (14.2 pts, 7.3 reb, 1.3 blocks) has two double-doubles and is shooting 57 percent from the floor, and Quentin Pridgen (8.7 pts, 7.9 reb, 5.1 ast) ranks first in the NEWMAC in assists and is third in rebounding. 
•    Clark is averaging 75.2 points on 45.9 percent shooting and ranks 31st in Division III in rebounding margin (7.8). 

CONFERENCE LAURELS FOR LAUDER
•    Thanks to an 11-rebound, four-block performance last Wednesday at Johns Hopkins, senior Tyler Lauder was selected as the NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week on Monday. 
•    He grabbed nine boards in the second half and overtime and his four rejections were one shy of his career high set against WPI back on January 11, 2023. 

BEAVERS PICKED SECOND IN NEWMAC COACHES POLL
•    Coming off last year's third-place finish in the league standings, Babson received a pair of first-place votes and came in second behind WPI when the conference released its preseason coaches' poll back in October. 
•    The Engineers, who have claimed four straight NEWMAC regular season titles, earned three first-place votes to finish atop the poll with 57 points, the Beavers came in as the runner-up with 53 points and defending conference tournament champion Clark was third with three first-place votes and 51 points. 

O'TOOLE JOINS ELITE COMPANY
•    With two blocked shots in Babson's December 3 loss to WPI, senior Timmy O'Toole joined Bryant Richards '96, associate head coach Joey Flannery '17 and former teammate Nate Amado '25 as one of just four players in school history to amass 500 rebounds, 100 steals and 50 blocked shots. 
•    He ranks 11th in program history with 597 rebounds, 13th with 51 blocked shots, and is currently tied for 17th all-time with 105 steals. 

LONG-RANGE BOMBERS
•    Fernadino, who leads the team with 34 triples, ranks third in Division III in three-point field goal percentage (49.3) and ninth nationally in three-pointers per game (3.40). 
•    Mulvey, who finished two trifectas short of Babson's freshman record last winter, ranks second in the NEWMAC and 46th in Division III in three-point percentage (41.5) and fifth in the conference in three-pointers per game (2.70). 

TRENDS TO WATCH
•    O'Toole, who is averaging 9.7 points, leads the NEWMAC in both rebounds per game (8.4) and offensive rebounds per game (3.7), and is tied for second in the league with two double-doubles. 
•    Lauder, who is averaging 6.8 boards and 2.7 assists, is one of just three players along with Pridgen of Clark and Justin Molen of WPI that ranks among the top 10 in the conference in both rebounds and assists. 
•    Murphy has scored in double figures three times over Babson's last five games and is shooting 45.5 percent (10-of-22) from beyond the arc during this stretch. 
•    Sophomore Theo Lamb played a career-high 22 minutes at Johns Hopkins and contributed three points, three rebounds, two assists and one steal. 
•    Fiore matched his season high in minutes played (24) and reached double figures in scoring for the fourth time this winter in the loss at Johns Hopkins. 
•    Ferdinando matched his season high with six three-pointers and also grabbed a season-best nine rebounds at Johns Hopkins. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 4-1 at home this season and have won 13 of their last 16 games inside Staake Gymnasium going back to late November of last year. 
•    Babson is 6-1 this winter when shooting better than 40 percent from the floor.
•    The Green and White is 5-0 when outrebounding its opponents but just 1-4 when losing the rebounding battle. 
•    The Beavers are 5-1 this winter in games decided by five points or less. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson will play the first of two straight NEWMAC games on the road beginning with a trip to Coast Guard on Saturday at 1 p.m.