NEW YORK - The Yeshiva University men's basketball program once again earned national recognition as the team was named the NCAA Statistical Champions in Field Goal Percentage (53.0) and Assists Per Game (20.9). Individually, Eitan Halpert won the NCAA Statistical Championship in Three-Point Field Goal Percentage (48.8), while Ryan Turell finished the year leading all three NCAA divisions in Points Per Game (27.1) which earned him the Travis Grant Award.

Turell and Halpert are the 10^th and 11^th student-athletes in school history to be named NCAA Statistical Champions. The full list can be accessed here. 

Halpert led Yeshiva to its first victory over a nationally ranked opponent in program history by draining seven out of 10 shot attempts from beyond the arc, and finished the game with 23 points, as No. 24 Yeshiva knocked off No. 5 University of Saint Joseph back on February 17, 2022. His 48.8% shooting from beyond the arc is the second highest 3-point shooting percentage in team history. Ian Ribald ('07) shot 50.9% from deep for Yeshiva during the 2005-06 season. 

Turell set a program single-game scoring record with 51 points in Yeshiva's Skyline win over Manhattanville College, 78-56, on November 28, 2021. Turell is No. 1 on YU's All-Time Career Scoring List with 2,158 points and is the school's all-time single-season scoring leader with 786 points which he produced in 2021-22.

This year, the Yeshiva University men's basketball team won its third Skyline Conference Championship in team history, earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament, was ranked No. 1 in the country by D3hooops.com, and sustained a 50-game winning streak spanning from November of 2019 until December of 2021.

The program was covered by local and national media outlets such as ESPN, ABC 7 Eyewitness News, New York Magazine, Axios, The Wall Street Journal, Times of Israel, The Associated Press, CNN, CNBC, Overtime, etc. The team also earned kudos from the New York Knicks, the NBA, and the Big Ten.