CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Junior forward Jack Margoupis (Sutton, Mass.) scored 20 of his game-high 32 points in the second half as Salve Regina University men's basketball rallied for a 68-54 victory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in NEWMAC action at the Rockwell Cage in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Seahawks (7-1, 1-0 NEWMAC) open their New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference slate with their third victory over the Engineers (4-6, 0-2 NEWMAC) in the last three seasons.

Margoupis made five 3-pointers while Pat Spenard (Rochester, Mass.) drained two and Jack McMullen (East Greenwich, R.I.) had one from long range for the Seahawks. Michael Zhang led the hosts with 17 points including three of their seven behind the arc. Wyatt Mowery had a double-double for the Engineers with a game-high 10 rebounds and matching that number with 10 points.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Final: Salve Regina 68, MIT 54
Records: Salve Regina (7-1, 1-0 NEWMAC), MIT (4-6, 0-2 NEWMAC)
History: These programs meet for the 10th time in men's basketball and fifth time as fellow NEWMAC members. In the 2023-24 season, each team won on the other's home court. The Seahawks are now 4-6 in the all-time series and 3-2 since becoming NEWMAC members.

SUMMARY

• 1H | Michael Zhang came off the bench in the first minute and drained a 3-pointer at 18:14 for the largest Engineer lead of the game, 6-1. Salve Regina went on a 10-2 run as Pat Spenard hit a 3-pointer at 16:04 for the first Seahawk lead, 11-8. Jack Margoupis had a dozen points in the period with Domenic Malvey dishing four of his game-high five assists in the first. | SEAHAWKS 31, ENGINEERS 33
• 2H | Margoupis started the scoring with a pair of free throws to tie the score and then hit a 3-pointer as Salve Regina would never trail again. Zavier Francoeur had an offensive rebound and dunk. Wyatt Mowry and Isaac Dobie had buckets to even the score at 38-all before another Spenard trey. Margoupis created an old-fashioned three-point play with a driving layup. Dobie's 3-pointer at 6:51 closed the Engineer gap to six (54-48), but the Seahawks outscored their hosts, 14-6, the rest of the way. | SEAHAWKS 37, ENGINEERS 21

NOTEWORTHY

• Jack Margoupis scores a season-high 32 points in the 14-point victory.
• Domenic Malvey led all players with five assists.
• Jack McMullen had four of the Seahawks' 10 steals in the game.
• Salve Regina attempted 10 fewer treys than MIT while making one more than the hosts (8-for-18, .444; 7-for-28, .250).

ON THE HORIZON
Salve Regina hosts Roger Williams University on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, (New Year's Eve) with a 1 p.m. tip-off on FloCollege.