Women's Basketball vs. Stevens
Sunday, November 8 | 1 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 1-0 all-time against Stevens after defeating the Ducks 66-56 back on November 21, 2009, in Hoboken, N.J.
•    Kathleen King '12 finished with 17 points and 12 rebounds, Becky Bowman '12 scored 14 points and Sarah Collins '13 added 13 points for the Beavers, who started the second half with a 17-0 run to erase a 12-point deficit at the break. 
•    Dawn Garcia scored a game-high 19 points for Stevens, which shot 61.5 percent in the first half while building a 35-23 advantage. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (1-0) opened the season with a 72-52 victory over Roger Williams on Friday night. 
•    Junior Rylie Rosenberg poured in a career-high 25 points and classmate Mary Kate Flynn finished with career highs of 12 points and 13 rebounds for the Beavers, who shot 42 percent and finished with a 41-31 edge on the glass. 
•    The Green and White 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, led by Rosenberg (11.5, 3.0 reb, 2.4 ast), who knocked down 65 three-pointers and scored in double figures 17 times last winter. 
•    Junior Julia St. Laurent (7.2 pts, 3.5 reb) started 26 of 27 games and shot 44.6 percent from the floor, sophomore Alyssa Hopps (5.9 pts, 4.5 reb) and 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 DUCKS
•    Stevens (0-0) graduated all five starters and four of its top five scorers from a team that went 20-7 and advanced to the MAC Freedom Tournament final last season. 
•    Maya Abramson (6.3 pts, 6.0 reb) scored in double figures seven times, Fiona O'Boyle (5.6 pts, 6.0 reb) posted five double-doubles and shot 46.6 percent from the floor, and Ceejay Thomas contributed 5.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 14 games off the bench last winter. 
•    Katherine Bogutsky averaged 3.3 points in 25 games for the Ducks, who limited their opponents to 57.4 points per game on 34.5 percent shooting in addition to forcing 16.5 turnovers. 
•    Stevens, which has a new head coach in Camille McPherson, was picked to come in fourth in the MAC Freedom preseason poll.

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. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Barnosky picked up the 50th win of her career in Friday's season opener.
•    Mendoza (4 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists) and sophomore Molly Donovan both made the first starts of their respective careers in Friday's win over Roger Williams. 
•    Flynn, who pulled down eight offensive rebounds, and Reale both had four steals in the victory over Roger Williams. 
•    First-years Gabby D'Agostino (2 pts, 2 ast), Brynn Bryant (2 pts, 2 reb), Astou Toure and Anna Freeman all made their collegiate debut on Friday against the Hawks.
•    Junior Madison Hart contributed two points, one rebound and one steal in her first action since February 22, 2025, on Friday after missing all of last season due to injury. 

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, senior Samantha Reale had posted three double-doubles and had scored in double figures five times while averaging 10.7 points, 8.1 rebounds and 2.1 steals 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 24-2 going back to the start of the 2024-25 campaign 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 finished 10-1 last winter when holding their opponents below 60 points. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson travels to Irving, Texas, to face the University of Dallas next Friday at 6:30 p.m. ET.