2026 NCAA Division III Championship Bracket 

Men's Soccer vs. Oneonta
NCAA Tournament First Round
Saturday, November 14 | 1:30 p.m. 
Bello Field | Medford, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    The Babson men's soccer team earned one of 22 at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament and will travel to the campus of Tufts University for the first and second rounds this weekend. 
•    The Beavers will join the fourth-ranked Jumbos, the defending Division III national champions, Oneonta and Penn State-Abington at Bello Field for matches on Saturday and Sunday. 

SCHEDULE
First Round | Saturday, November 14
No. 4 Tufts (10-3-5) vs. Penn State-Abington (13-4-4), 11 a.m.
Babson (10-2-6) vs. Oneonta (13-2-3), 1:30 p.m. 

Second Round | Sunday, November 15
First round winners, 1 p.m.

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 1-2 all-time against Oneonta in a series that dates back to 2014. 
•    The Beavers and Red Dragons will meet in the first round of the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row and third time since 2019 on Saturday. 
•    Each of the previous two NCAA matchups have been decided by a single goal, including Oneonta's 3-2 OT victory in 2019. 

LAST MEETING
•    Sophomore Connor Hanrahan scored the only goal of the match in the 71st minute as Babson defeated Oneonta, 1-0, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on November 15, 2025, in New London, Conn. 
•    Hanrahan ran onto a pass from senior Alexander Yablonovskiy and flicked his first touch past Red Dragons goalkeeper James Cintron for his fourth goal of the year. 
•    JB Montague finished with four saves for the Beavers, while Cintron stopped seven shots in defeat for Oneonta. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
NCAA Tournament Appearance: 34th (32nd in Division III)
Best NCAA Finish: 1975, 1979 and 1980 Division III national champions 
Last NCAA Tournament Appearance: 2025 (second round)
•    Babson (10-2-6), which is riding an eight-game unbeaten streak, played to a 1-1 2OT draw before falling 5-4 on penalties to Coast Guard in last Friday's NEWMAC Tournament semifinals. 
•    Senior Titus Charles scored his first goal of the season in the 67th minute, senior McKenzy Pierre and junior Phillip Finch both recorded assists, and first-year goalkeeper Braeden Condit made two saves for the Beavers, who outshot the Bears 21-10. 
•    Yablonovskiy (5-5-15) has scored four game-winning goals, Hanrahan (4-1-9) and Pierre (3-3-9) have both provided a goal and an assist over the last five games, and senior Will Lloyd (2-2-6) and junior Christian Gardner (2-2-6) combined for three game-winning markers. 
•    Condit has started the last seven matches and is 4-0-3 with a 0.55 goals against average, a .800 save percentage and three shutouts. 

SCOUTING THE RED DRAGONS
NCAA Tournament Appearance: 17th (13th in Division III)
Best NCAA Finish: National Semifinals (2011, 2014, 2015)
Last NCAA Tournament Appearance: 2025 (first round)
•    Oneonta (13-2-3) had its three-game winning streak snapped in a 3-2 loss to Cortland in the SUNYAC Tournament semifinals on November 4. 
•    Zach Rabadi and Yacouba Bamba scored first-half goals, Iyare Harris provided an assist and Cintron finished with five saves for the Red Dragons, who held a pair of one-goal leads before falling behind in the 68th minute. 
•    Iyare Harris (11-8-30) owns an eight-game points streak and has a goal in six of his last seven outings, Imari Harris (8-3-19) leads the team with four game-winning markers, Rabadi (6-5-17) has a point in four consecutive matches, and Bamba (3-5-11) is fourth on the team in scoring despite playing just twice since October 10. 
•    Cintron (10-2-2) has started 14 games and owns a 1.06 goals against average and a .714 save percentage to go along with three clean sheets. 

BEAVERS IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
•    Babson is making its 34th NCAA Tournament appearance, which includes seven in a row since 2019 and 15 in the last 18 years going back to 2008. 
•    The Beavers kept four clean consecutive clean sheets and defeated St. John Fisher (1-0), Wesleyan (1-0) and Trinity (Texas) 2-0, to reach the national quarterfinals in 2024 before falling on penalty kicks to Middlebury following a 0-0 draw. 
•    The 1975, 1979 and 1980 Division III national champions also advanced to the national semifinals in both 1977 and 1991 and reached the sectional semifinals in 2010 and 2011.
•    The Green and White is 3-1-1 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament since 2021 when it defeated Cabrini, 2-1. The Beavers fell in penalties to Vassar following a 1-1 draw in 2022, lost to Johns Hopkins 4-3 in 2OT in 2023 and defeated Oneonta, 1-0, last November. 

TOURNAMENT TESTED
•    Yablonovskiy produced two goals and three assists while recording a point in four postseason games last season. He has scored five times in 13 career postseason contests and has two goals and one assist in six NCAA matches. 
•    Lloyd has played every minute of Babson's last nine postseason games going back to the start of the 2024 NCAA Tournament and has been in the starting XI in 12 of his 14 career postseason contests. 

LEGEND ON THE SIDELINES
•    Now in his 41st season at Babson, head coach Jon Anderson '75 ranks second among active Division III coaches and 11th in Division III history with 492 wins. 
•    He owns 50 career NCAA and conference tournament victories going back to 1986 and is 15-17-6 all-time in 22 NCAA appearances with the Beavers. 
•    In addition to his wins, Anderson also ranks third in NCAA history with 104 draws. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Yablonovskiy ranks 11th in program history with 25 goals and is also 13th all-time on the Beavers' career points list with 63. 
•    The Beavers have had 12 players account for their 25 goals this season, and 16 different players have at least one point on the year. 
•    Lloyd started his 65th straight game in last Friday's NEWMAC Tournament draw against Coast Guard. 
•    Lloyd and sophomores Nicholas Adams and Adam Stetson are the only players to start all 18 matches this fall for the Green and White. 

WHEN 90 MINUTES ISN'T ENOUGH
•    No overtime was played during regular season contests for the fourth consecutive season, but all postseason matches will feature two 10-minute sudden-death overtime periods if a game is deadlocked at the end of regulation. 
•    If the game remains tied after both overtime sessions, a winner will be decided by penalty kicks.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 9-0-6 this season when conceding one or zero goals.
•    Babson is 9-1-3 over the last two seasons in the month of November. 
•    The Green and White has outscored its opponents 18-8 in the second half this season with 11 of its goals coming in the 73rd minute or later. 
•    Babson is 8-0-3 this fall and 35-1-6 over the last three seasons when scoring the opening goal of the game.
•    The Beavers are 4-1-3 in road and neutral field matches this fall.
•    The Green and White is 8-0 this season and 27-0-1 over the last three years when scoring at least two goals.