Box Score THROGGS NECK, N.Y. - The Yeshiva University men's basketball team has shot well from the field throughout the 2012-13 season, and Saturday night's regular-season finale at Skyline Conference rival Maritime College was no exception. The visiting Maccabees (11-14, 7-11 Skyline) shot 29-for-41 (.707) from the field at Riesenberg Gymnasium, notching NCAA Division III's sixth-highest single-game field-goal percentage this season in the process (
see chart below), en route to a 76-68 win against the Privateers (4-19, 3-15 Skyline).
YU won three of its last four regular-season games (including its last two), and will be the sixth seed in next week's Skyline Conference Tournament. Head coach Dr. Jonathan Halpert's Macs will be making their first appearance in the tourney since 2010, and will kick off the championships Tuesday night (Feb. 19), when it travels to Newburgh, N.Y., for a date with third-seeded Mount Saint Mary College at the Kaplan Center. Game time is slated to be finalized on Sunday (Feb. 17), and will be updated on the "Schedule" link on the YUMacs.com men's basketball page.
Yeshiva was led by senior
Gil Bash (Tel Aviv, Israel), who went 12-for-15 from the field en route to a season-high 28 points and game-high-tying five assists. Junior big man
Shlomo Weissberg (Skokie, Ill.) picked up his third double-double in as many games this week (and ninth of the season) with 18 points (7-for-10 FG) and a game-high 16 caroms, while freshman
Yosef Rosenthal (W. Hempstead, N.Y.) added 10 points in his first collegiate start. Senior guard
David Schmelzer (Columbus, Ohio) drilled all three of his 3-pointers on the night, including a clutch trifecta late in the shot clock with 3:05 remaining to push the Macs' lead to 69-57.
YU registered one of the best shooting halves in perhaps all three NCAA Divisions thus far this season in the opening 20-minute stanza, as it went 19-for-23 from the field (.826), and buried all four of its efforts beyond the arc, en route to a 47-28 halftime advantage.
However, Maritime converted 21 Macs turnovers into 29 points on the night, and used this to its advantage in the second half by cutting its deficit to 62-57 when Jeremiah Blunt dialed up a long-distance effort with 7:09 to go. The teams remained scoreless for the next two-plus minutes, before Yeshiva scored the next seven points of the contest -- capped by Schmelzer's clutch 3-ball -- to help hold off the hosts.
2012-13 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball
Single-Game Field-Goal Percentage Leaders (source: NCAA.org)
