Men's Basketball at Salve Regina
Saturday, February 21 | 1 p.m. 
Rodgers Athletic Center | Newport, R.I. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 15-4 all-time against Salve Regina in a series that dates back to the 1982-83 campaign. 
•    The Beavers have won 11 of the last 13 games between the teams, which includes three straight and four of five matchups between the teams as conference foes over the last three seasons. 
•    All five games between Babson and the Seahawks since 2024 have been decided by at least 14 points with the home team coming out victorious four times. 

LAST MEETING
•    First-year Thomas Ferdinando scored 21 points and senior Timmy O'Toole finished with 16 points, 10 rebounds and three steals as the Beavers built a 24-point halftime lead and defeated Salve Regina, 89-74, on January 22 in Babson Park. 
•    First-year Robby Fiore provided 14 points on 5-of-6 shooting and sophomore Timmy Mulvey added 12 points on 4-of-8 shooting from beyond the arc for Babson, which knocked down 14 three-pointers and led by as many as 30 near the midway point of the second half. 
•    Pat Spenard poured in 26 points on 8-of-12 shooting, Quinn Burke came off the bench to score 12 points and Sean Seymour added 11 for the Seahawks, who shot 65.4 percent from the field in the second half. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (18-6, 12-3 NEWMAC) has won six consecutive games after recording a hard-fought 61-49 victory over MIT on Wednesday night. 
•    Mulvey scored a game-high 22 points, Ferdinando contributed 20 points, five rebounds and three assists, and sophomore Logan Murphy chipped in with nine second-half points for the Beavers, who held the Engineers without a field goal for more than seven minutes late in the second half to pull away. 
•    Ferdinando (16.4 pts, 3.9 reb, 2.6 ast) has scored 20 or more points in three of the last four games, Mulvey (15.8 pts, 2.5 ast) had made three or more three-pointers in 11 straight contests and O'Toole (10.1 pts, 8.9 reb) leads the NEWMAC in rebounding and is shooting 57.7 percent from the field. 
•    The Green and White ranks first in conference play in scoring defense allowing 62.4 points, rebounding margin (+4.7), turnover margin (4.67) and three-pointers per game (9.9). 

SCOUTING THE SEAHAWKS
•    Salve Regina (18-6, 11-4 NEWMAC), which lost the league's leading scorer Jack Margoupis to injury back on January 17, has won three straight and six of its last seven games after defeating Wheaton, 69-62, on Wednesday night. 
•    Seymour finished with 22 points and 11 rebounds, Spenard posted a double-double with 14 points and 10 boards, and Domenic Malvey and William Mensah each provided 12 points for the Seahawks, who shot 66.7 percent from inside the arc and jumped out to an early 16-point lead before holding off a late rally by the Lyons. 
•    Seymour (16.3 pts, 4.9 reb, 2.0 ast) ranks sixth in the league in scoring and has reached double figures in nine of the last 10 games, Spenard (13.1 pts, 5.8 reb) ranks fourth in the conference shooting 55.3 percent and Malvey (7.5 pts, 3.9 reb, 3.5 ast) is averaging 14.0 points on 61 percent shooting over the last four games. 
•    Salve Regina is shooting a league-best 49.8 percent versus NEWMAC foes while averaging 72.4 points and is holding opponents to just 31 percent shooting from beyond the arc. 

WHAT'S AT STAKE
•    The winner will earn the number two seed and a quarterfinal bye before hosting a NEWMAC Tournament semifinal next Thursday, while the loser of Saturday's clash will host either Clark or Springfield in the quarterfinal round on Tuesday night. 
•    Babson also needs a win and a loss by WPI at home against Wheaton to earn a share of its first regular season league title since 2017.

LAUDER NAMED NEWMAC DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
•    After posting a double-double and averaging 8.5 rebounds, 2.0 steals and 1.0 blocks, senior Tyler Lauder was tabbed as the league's defensive player of the week on Monday. 
•    Lauder finished with 13 points and 10 boards in last Wednesday's win at Emerson and had two steals and on rejection against both the Lions and Wheaton. 

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARDS
•    O'Toole has set a new career high with 213 rebounds this winter and ranks seventh in Division III averaging 4.0 offensive rebounds per game on the year. 
•    One of nine players in program history with more than 700 career boards, O'Toole passed John Wickey '15 for eighth place on Wednesday night and now has 726 career rebounds.
•    Since the statistic began being tracked at Babson in 1999-2000, O'Toole's 96 offensive rebounds this winter are a single-season record and his 308 career offensive boards nearly 100 more than any other player over the last 26 seasons. 

THREE AT A TIME
•    Mulvey ranks second in Division III in three-pointers per game (3.46), fourth in total three-pointers (83) and ninth in three-point field goal percentage (43.7), while Ferdinando ranks 13th nationally in total three-pointers (75), 14th in three-point percentage (43.4) and 16th in three-pointers (per game (3.13). 
•    Mulvey passed both Sam Bohmiller '17 and Jack Coolahan '20 in Wednesday's victory and now ranks ninth all-time with 135 career three-pointers, while also moving past current associate head coach Joey Flannery '17 and Nick Comenale '18 into fourth place on the Beavers' single-season three-point list. 
•    Ferdinando has already shattered the previous Babson rookie record of 56 three-pointers and is now eighth on the single-season chart with his 75 triples this winter.

BABSON TRENDS 
•    In 15 starts in conference play, senior Tyler Lauder ranks second in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.10), seventh in blocked shots (0.9) and ninth in assists (2.9).
•    Ferdinando has scored in double figures in 15 straight games and has knocked down at least two three-pointers nine consecutive outings, while Mulvey has reached double figures in 12 games in a row.
•    Four of O'Toole's team-leading six double-doubles have come during the Beavers' last 10 games. 
•    Over the last three games, Murphy is averaging 10.7 points on 71.4 percent (10-of-14) shooting.
•    The Green and White has attempted at least 21 three-pointers in all 24 games this season.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 6-1 on the road against NEWMAC foes this winter with five double-digit victories. 
•    Babson is 15-0 this winter and has won its last 17 games when outrebounding its opponents.
•    The Green and White is 15-0 this year and 29-1 over the last two seasons when leading with five minutes to play in regulation. 
•    The Beavers are 10-1 on the season when holding its foes below 70 points. 

UP NEXT
•    The NEWMAC Tournament seedings will be announced on Saturday afternoon.