Women's Basketball vs. Coast Guard
NEWMAC Tournament | Quarterfinal
Wednesday, February 25 | 7 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 40-12 all-time against Coast Guard in a series that dates back to the 1982-83 campaign.
•    The Beavers have dropped two straight games to the Bears after winning 11 in a row in the series from 2015-24. 
•    The Green and White has won four of its last five games inside Staake Gymnasium versus Coast Guard although the loss was a 67-62 setback on January 29, 2025. 

POSTSEASON HISTORY
•    Babson and Coast Guard will meet in the NEWMAC quarterfinals for the second time in the last seasons but just the fourth time overall in the conference playoffs on Wednesday night. 
•    The Beavers have won each of the three previous postseason meetings between the teams, defeating Coast Guard 65-49 in New London, Conn., after recording lopsided quarterfinal victories at home on the way to capturing NEWMAC Tournament crowns in both 2009 and 2010. 

LAST MEETING
•    Dorothy Stotts and Olivia Wright both scored 19 points and Coast Guard used a 14-2 third-quarter run to pull away for a 68-50 win over Babson back on January 21 in New London, Conn.
•    Elliot Geer added 11 points and Taylor Lynch recorded nine points, nine rebounds, three assists and three steals for the Bears, who shot 46.7 percent over the first three quarters and led by four at the break despite committing 13 first-half turnovers. 
•    Graduate student Emily Flynn posted a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds, while Alessa Mendoza added nine points and three assists off the bench for the Beavers, who finished 3-of-17 from three-point range and committed 19 turnovers in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Second-seeded Babson (17-8) closed the regular season by winning eight of its final nine games and is coming off a 63-44 victory at Wheaton on Saturday. 
•    Sophomore Rylie Rosenberg scored 14 points and grabbed six rebounds, classmate Julia St. Laurent added 10 points and three assists, and fellow sophomore Mary Kate Flynn scored a career-high nine points to go along with seven boards and four steals for the Beavers, who opened the game with a 14-0 run and led by as many as 26 in the fourth quarter. 
•    Emily Flynn (15.1 pts, 7.6 reb, 3.4 ast) is shooting 43.5 percent and ranks fifth in the conference in scoring and assists and eighth in rebounding, Rosenberg (10.6 pts, 3.1 reb, 2.2 ast) averaged 16 points over the final three games of the regular season and senior Chloe Perreault (7.8 pts, 6.2 reb) has made at least one three-pointer in 10 of the last 11 contests. 
•    The Green and White ranked second in the regular season against conference opponents in both scoring offense (64.8 points) and rebounding margin (+6.6) while holding foes to just 55.4 points per game on 35.7 percent shooting. 

SCOUTING THE BEARS
•    Seventh-seeded Coast Guard (13-12) closed the regular season with back-to-back wins after defeating Mount Holyoke, 70-49, on Saturday. 
•    Stotts finished with 24 points, Lynch provided 14 points, eight rebounds, three assists and three steals, and Wright came off the bench to score 10 points for the Bears, who outscored the Lyons 22-6 after trailing by three at halftime. 
•    Stotts (20.2 pts, 4.4 reb, 2.5 ast) ranks second in the NEWMAC in scoring and has attempted 74 shots over the last three games, Wright (13.0 pts, 4.9 reb, 1.5 stl) has scored in double figures in eight of the last 10 games and Lynch (8.3 pts, 4.7 reb, 3.8 ast) ranks fourth in the league in assists. 
•    Coast Guard, which is seeking its first NEWMAC Tournament win since 2016, ranked third in conference play in scoring offense averaging 63.0 points and three-pointers per game (6.8) despite shooting just 36.5 percent from the field. 

BEAVERS IN THE POSTSEASON
•    Babson has captured 10 NEWMAC/NEW 8 Tournament championships going back to 1991 (1991, 1993, 1999, 2009-13, 2015, 2017) and most recently reached the conference tournament final in three consecutive seasons from 2022-24. 
•    The Beavers are 25-5 all-time in the quarterfinal round of the conference tournament going back to the formation of the NEW 6 Conference in 1986 but had its eight game-winning streak in the opening round snapped last year with a loss to WPI.
•    The Green and White has reached the NEWMAC semifinals 15 times in the last 16 tournaments going back to 2009. 

TOURNAMENT TESTED
•    The trio of Emily Flynn, Perreault and senior Allessia Carlo has combined to play 23 postseason games since 2023. 
•    Flynn has reached double figures three times in five outings while averaging 8.0 points and 2.8 rebounds, and had 10 points, four boards and two assists in last winter's quarterfinal loss to WPI.
•    Perreault, who has played in all 11 of Babson's postseason games over the last three seasons, pulled down six boards in a 2023 NCAA Tournament first round contest in 2023 and followed it up with seven points in the Beavers' Sweet 16 victory over Marietta a week later. 
•    Carlo came off the bench to score seven points in Babson's overtime upset of Springfield in the 2024 NEWMAC semifinals and made her first postseason start last year in the quarterfinal versus WPI. 

FEBRUARY IN FOCUS
•    Despite falling to Smith in its regular season home finale last Wednesday, the Beavers are 17-5 in the month of February under third-year head coach Kate Barnosky. 
•    The Green and White is 12-2 in February over the last two seasons and has allowed fewer than 60 points nine times over the 14 games. 
•    Babson is outscoring its foes by 0.12 points per possession in six games this month while forcing 16.7 turnovers and holding its foes to just 25.5 percent shooting from beyond the arc. 

THREE AT A TIME
•    For the first time in program history, Babson has three players with at least 35 three-pointers this winter. 
•    Rosenberg (52) and Flynn (46) and rank third and fifth in the NEWMAC, respectively, while Perreault's career-high 37 triples are good for 14th in the league.
•    Rosenberg's 52 triples are the sixth most in single-season program history, ranks fifth in Babson history with 114 career three-pointers, and Perreault is 13th on the program's all-time list with 70 trifectas. 

HISTORY LESSON
•   The last time Babson hosted an opponent it lost to during the regular season in the NEWMAC quarterfinals came all the way back in 2003 when it beat eighth-seeded Clark 74-58 after suffering a 74-59 loss to the Cougars on the road in early February. 
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BABSON TRENDS
•    All five of the Beavers' regular starters are averaging better than six points per game in league play and each of the five has led the team in scoring at least once over the last eight contests. 
•    Rosenberg has made nine three-pointers over the last two contests and has a team-high 19 steals in NEWMAC play. 
•    St. Laurent reached double figures in scoring six times in 10 conference games while shooting 47.3 percent from the field.
•    Emily Flynn, who missed Saturday's win at Wheaton, has scored in double figures in 15 of her last 17 games going back to November 28. 
•    Carlo has averaged 6.5 points in league play in addition to boasting a 1.93 assist-to-turnover ratio.
•    Sophomore Alyssa Hopps averaged 9.5 points and .48 rebounds while shooting 48.4 percent from the field over the final four games of the regular season.
•    Mary Kate Flynn is averaging 6.1 rebounds over the last 10 games.
•    First-year Sophie Mahar played a season-high nine minutes in Saturday's victory at Wheaton scoring seven points on 2-of-3 shooting. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 12-1 when leading at halftime and 16-0 when ahead entering the fourth quarter this season.
•    Babson is 11-2 when shooting 40 percent or better from the field on the year.
•    The Green and White is 16-4 this winter when outrebounding its opponents.
•    The Beavers are 16-2 on the year when scoring at least 60 points.
•    Babson is 12-2 this season when holding its opponent below 40 percent shooting.
•    The Green and White is 10-2 when making at least eight three-pointers.
•    The Beavers are 11-1 when three or more players score in double figures. 

UP NEXT
•    The winner of Wednesday's quarterfinal will face either third-seeded Clark or sixth-seeded WPI in the semifinals on Friday.