No. 19 Men's Basketball vs. Lasell
Saturday, November 7 | 7 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

LOOKING BACK ON 2025-26
•    Babson captured its third conference title in four seasons for the first time in school history and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last winter. 
•    The Beavers recorded their most overall wins (22) and NEWMAC victories (13) since the 2016-17 campaign and defeated Saint Joseph's (Maine) in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament before falling to eventual NCAA semifinalist Trinity in the second round. 
•    The Green and White graduated four seniors, including all-region and all-conference honoree Timmy O'Toole (10.2 pts, 8.9 reb) and Tyler Lauder (5.5 pts, 6.4 reb, 2.8 ast), who both started all 29 games last year. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 20-3 all-time against Lasell in a series that dates back to 1998.
•    The Beavers have won 13 in a row versus the Lasers although the teams have played 10 games decided by five points or less in the all-time series. 
•    The Green and White has won its last seven games against Lasell inside Staake Gymnasium going back to 2014. 

LAST MEETING
•    Sophomore Thomas Ferdinando led four players in double figures with 19 points and also dished out six assists as Babson overcame a 13-point halftime deficit to defeat Lasell, 77-73, on November 18, 2025, in Newton, Mass.
•    O'Toole posted a double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds, while senior Marc Begin II and junior Timmy Mulvey both scored 11 points for the Beavers, who shot 59.3 percent in the second half and took the lead for good on a bucket by O'Toole with 4:42 remaining. 
•    Esmer Madesko provided 20 points, 11 assists and four steals, Che Hanks scored 17 points and Cameron Nell added 11 points for the Lasers, who scored 22 points off turnovers but shot just 33.3 percent in the second half after building a 46-33 lead at the break. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 19 Babson (0-0) returns three starters and 13 players in all from a team that went 22-7 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2022 last winter. 
•    Ferdinando (16.8 pts, 4.0 reb, 2.8 ast) earned D3hoops.com Region II Rookie of the Year and All-NEWMAC first-team honors, Mulvey (16.1 pts, 2.4 ast) garnered all-conference and all-region first-team accolades, and junior Logan Murphy averaged 7.2 points and 2.6 rebounds, and shot 40 percent from three-point range while starting 20 of 29 games last season. 
•    Begin II averaged 9.3 points and 2.1 rebounds while starting seven games before suffering a season-ending injury in early January, junior Ryan Frauenheim provided 5.2 points and 2.0 assists off the bench and sophomore Robby Fiore (4.6 pts) scored in double figures six times during his rookie campaign. 
•    The Green and White averaged 76.2 points on 45.8 percent shooting, committed just 11.6 turnovers per game and finished the year with a +4.3 rebounding margin. 

SCOUTING THE LASERS
•    Lasell (0-0) brings back its top four scorers and 11 players in all from a team that went 13-13 and fell in the GNAC Tournament quarterfinals. 
•    Esmer Madesko (20.1 pts, 6.0 reb, 5.7 ast) shot 54.4 percent from the floor, Hanks averaged 13.8 points, 2.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists, and Andy Madesko contributed 12.4 points, 7.8 boards and 4.8 assists on 48.1 percent shooting. 
•    Tyler Costin (7.2 pts) knocked down a team-high 55 three-pointers and shot 42.3 percent from beyond the arc, while Cameron Foster-Martez averaged 4.0 points and 3.1 rebounds off the bench. 
•    The Lasers averaged 79.4 points on 44.9 percent shooting and committed just 11.7 turnovers per game last winter, but gave up 81.3 points on 45.7 percent shooting. 

PRESENCE IN THE POLLS
•    The Beavers begin the season in the national rankings for the first time since February 23, 2020, and are ranked in the D3hoops.com preseason top 25 for the first time since the 2017-18 campaign. 
•    In addition to starting the season ranked 19th in the national poll, Babson was picked to finish atop the NEWMAC preseason coaches' poll late last month. 
•    The Green and White collected five first-place votes and finished with 61 points to come in ahead of WPI (54 points), Salve Regina (47) and MIT (38) in the preseason poll. 

THREE AT A TIME
•    Mulvey became just the second player in program history to make at least 100 three-pointers in a season with his 102 triples last winter. Only Nick Comenale '18, who finished with 110 during Babson's national championship run in 2016-17, made more in a single season. 
•    Ferdinando's 87 three-pointers set a new Babson rookie record and are tied for fourth on the program's single-season chart. 
•    As a team, the Beavers ranked ninth in Division III in three-point field goal percentage (37.6) and 20th in three-pointers per game (10.3) while setting a new single-season program record with 299 trifectas. 

TRENDS TO WATCH
•    Frauenheim scored in double figures in three of Babson's final four games last winter and averaged 10.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists while shooting 53.3 percent (16-of-30) from the floor in the conference and NCAA tournaments. 
•    Ferdinando scored in double figures in the final 20 games of the 2025-26 campaign. 
•    Mulvey hit double figures in scoring in each of Babson's final 17 contests and has drained at least three three-pointers in 16 straight outings. 
•    Babson has attempted at least 19 three-pointers in 38 consecutive games going back to the 2024-25 season. 

ADDITIONS IN THE PORTAL
•    In addition to its three freshmen, Babson added a pair of transfers in graduate student Joe Thomson from Westfield State and junior Emanuel Domingo from DeSales. 
•    Thomson posted nine double-doubles, averaged 10.1 points, 11.3 rebounds and 1.3 blocks, and ranked first Division III in offensive rebounds per game for the Owls (5.1), while Domingo shot 59.4 percent from the floor and averaged 7.1 points and 3.4 rebounds in 26 games for the Bulldogs. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers went 12-2 inside Staake Gymnasium last season and enters the 2026-27 campaign riding an eight-game home winning streak.
•    Babson went 17-0 last winter when winning the rebounding battle. 
•    The Green and White went 14-1 last year when holding its opponents below 70 points. 
•    Babson was 20-4 a season ago when at least three players scored in double figures. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Waltham, Mass., to face Brandeis next Wednesday at 7 p.m.