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List of YU men's basketball 1,000-point scorers (Note: Dovie Hoffman and Gil Bash achieved this feat in 2012-13, and will have their names added to this list once their playing careers are finished)

ALBANY, N.Y. - Senior forward Gil Bash (Tel Aviv, Israel) became the 26th player in Yeshiva University men's basketball history to notch 1,000 career points with his layup 3:41 into Wednesday night's Skyline Conference men's basketball match-up at Kahl Center versus host The Sage Colleges. Bash was one of five Maccabees to register double-digit scoring totals against the Gators, before YU suffered a heartbreaking, 75-73 loss in overtime.

Bash is the second Yeshiva player to reach the 1,000 career points milestone this season, as his classmate, Dovie Hoffman (Tarzana, Calif.) eclipsed the barrier on Dec. 18 at Lehman College.

Bash scored 15 points to go with a game-high seven assists against Sage, while Hoffman added 10 and a game-high-tying two blocked shots. Junior Benjy Ritholtz (W. Hempstead, N.Y.) led the Macs with 17 points, while classmate Shlomo Weissberg (Skokie, Ill.) picked up another double-double with 16 points and a game-high-tying 11 caroms. Freshman Yosef Rosenthal (W. Hempstead, N.Y.), two nights after posting a career-high 14 points off the bench against NYU-Poly, made all seven shots he took (4-for-4 FG, 2-for-2 3FG, 3-for-3 FT) as a reserve against the Gators en route to 13 points. During this two-game stretch, Rosenthal is shooting 9-for-10 from the floor, 4-for-5 from 3-point land and 5-for-5 at the free-throw line.

The game was close throughout, featuring 15 ties and 11 lead changes along the way. Neither team led by more than nine points, with Sage carrying a 38-31 lead into halftime.

Four different YU players scored during a second-half-starting, 9-2 run that tied things up at 40-all with 17:05 remaining in regulation. The teams flip-flopped the lead throughout the rest of regulation, including a four-point margin in favor of the Maccabees when Hoffman knocked down a pair at the charity stripe with 2:21 on the clock. The Gators' Matt Farbotko hit a pair of clutch freebies with 22 ticks left, tying the contest at 66-all and sending the game to overtime.

Overtime featured much of the same, with neither team getting out to more than a three-point advantage. Ritholtz knocked down a trifecta off a feed from Bash to tie the contest at 73-73 with 26 seconds remaining, before Sage countered with a hoop by Ryan Sager with three seconds left. The Maccabees' potential winning 3-ball was off the mark at the horn, as the Gators knotted the teams' season series at one game apiece.

Head coach Dr. Jonathan Halpert's Yeshiva side will play its final regular-season home game of the season Saturday night (Dec. 9), when it plays host to non-conference foe, The City College of New York, in an 8:30 p.m. tip-off at Max Stern Athletic Center. Prior to the contest, the Macs will honor the team's four seniors: Bash, Hoffman, Arman Davtian (Haifa, Israel) and David Schmelzer (Columbus, Ohio).