Women's Basketball vs. Roger Williams
Friday, November 6 | 5 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

LOOKING BACK ON 2025-26
•    Babson posted its highest win total under now fourth-year head coach Kate Barnosky, going 18-9 overall while advancing to the NEWMAC Tournament semifinals. 
•    The Beavers finished second for the second year in a row in the conference standings and recorded its most league wins (9) since going 10-0 back in 2019-20. 
•    Emily Flynn '25 M'26 earned all-conference first-team honors after averaging career highs of 14.6 points, 7.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists, while Chloe Perreault '26 (7.7 pts, 6.2 reb) and Allessia Carlo '26 (5.1 pts, 2.4 ast) both graduated after starting all 27 games last winter. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 4-2 all-time against Roger Williams in a series that dates back to the 1981-82 campaign.
•    Following a 40-year hiatus, the Beavers and Hawks will meet for the sixth consecutive season on Friday. 
•    The home team has won four of the last five games between the squads with three of the last five contests decided by eight points or less. 
•    Babson and Roger Williams will play in the season opener for the third time in the last four seasons on Friday. 

LAST MEETING
•    Senior Samantha Reale led four players in double figures and finished with 17 points, 12 rebounds and four assists as Babson defeated Roger Williams, 71-53, on November 7, 2025, in Bristol, R.I. 
•    Junior Rylie Rosenberg scored 15 points and Emily Flynn and sophomore Alyssa Hopps both added 10 points for the Beavers, who knocked down 12 three-pointers and finished with a 56-40 edge on the glass. 
•    Maia Riccio came off the bench to score a team-high 11 points and Sophia Coppola provided 10 points, 10 rebounds and four blocked shots for the Hawks, who shot 32.8 percent from the floor and just 48 percent (12-of-25) at the free throw line in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (0-0) returns 11 players from a team that won nine of its final 11 games to conclude the year at 18-9 after reaching the NEWMAC semifinals. 
•    Rosenberg (11.5, 3.0 reb, 2.4 ast) knocked down 65 three-pointers and scored in double figures 17 times on the way to finishing second on the team in scoring, while Reale posted three double-doubles and averaged 10.7 points, 8.1 rebounds and 2.1 steals over the first seven games of last year before suffering a season-ending injury in late November. 
•    Junior Julia St. Laurent (7.2 pts, 3.5 reb) started 26 of 27 games and shot 44.6 percent from the floor, Hopps (5.9 pts, 4.5 reb) and junior Mary Kate Flynn (2.6 pts, 4.9 reb) were among the team's top rebounders, and fellow junior Alessa Mendoza averaged 5.4 points off the bench and scored in double figures five times. 
•    The Green and White averaged 65.8 points on 39.3 percent shooting and finished the year with a +6.8 rebounding margin in 2025-26. 

SCOUTING THE HAWKS
•    Roger Williams (0-0) returns 11 players, including three starters and five of its top seven scorers, from a team that went 13-13 and lost in the quarterfinals of the CNE Tournament. 
•    Chloe Richardson (8.7 pts, 3.2 reb) made a team-high 35 three-pointers last winter, Lilli Clark (8.0 pts, 6.8 reb) posted four double-doubles and was second on the team in rebounding, and Meg Qualey provided 3.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.3 blocks in 25 starts. 
•    Ava Azzaro contributed 7.0 points and 3.5 rebounds while shooting 46.3 percent off the bench, and Riccio added 5.3 points and 2.0 boards in 26 games. 
•    The Hawks averaged 59.7 points on 35.7 percent shooting and allowed just 55.3 points per game while finishing the year with a +4.5 rebounding margin. 

POLLING NUMBERS
•    Coming off last year's second-place finish and an appearance in the conference semifinals, Babson was picked to finish third when the NEWMAC preseason coaches' poll was released late last month. 
•    The Beavers finished with 102 points to finish just behind second-place Clark (103 points), while the six-time reigning league champions Smith received 11 of 12 first-place votes to finish atop the poll with 121 points. 

ROSENBERG NAMED TO NEWMAC PLAYERS TO WATCH LIST
•    After her strong finish to the 2025-26 campaign, Rosenberg was one of 10 named to the NEWMAC Players to Watch List back in October. 
•    Over the final five games of last season, she averaged 18.5 points while shooting 49.2 percent from the floor and 46 percent from beyond the arc while drilling 23 three-point field goals. 

REALE TALK
•    Before suffering a season-ending injury at Pomona-Pitzer on November 28 of last season, Reale had posted three double-doubles and had scored in double figures five times in seven games. 
•    A starter in 50 of 57 career games and a 2025 All-NEWMAC second-team selection, Reale is averaging 10.2 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.9 steals over her first three seasons at Babson. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers were 12-2 last season and are 23-2 over the last two years when shooting at least 40 percent. 
•    Babson went 17-4 last winter when outrebounding its opponents. 
•    The Green and White was 17-2 when scoring at least 60 points and a perfect 11-0 last year when scoring 70 points or more. 
•    The Beavers were 10-1 last winter when holding their opponents below 60 points. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson will host Stevens inside Staake Gymnasium on Sunday at 1 p.m.