NEW YORK (JTA) – Yeshiva University’s men’s basketball team is riding a 35-game winning streak, picking up from last season when the Maccabees reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA’s Division III national tournament before the pandemic shut down the rest of the event.
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The unbeaten streak is the third longest in Division III men’s basketball history, and the longest among all current NCAA Division I, II and III teams. Y.U., the Modern Orthodox flagship university in Manhattan, has started the 2020-21 season at 6-0 and is ranked No. 4 in the D3hoops.com Men’s National Poll. The Maccabees, the defending Skyline Conference champion, haven’t lost since the opening game of the previous campaign.
D3hoops.com also named senior forward Gabriel Leifer of Lawrence, New York, to its Team of the Week on Tuesday. Leifer, a returning fourth team All-American, is just the fourth men’s basketball player, and seventh overall, in the 24-year history of D3hoops.com to be named to its Team of the Week in four separate seasons, according to Y.U.
For all its promise, the team will be denied the chance for a tournament title for the second season in a row: Due to low participation numbers among member schools, NCAA Division III winter championships are canceled for the 2020-21 academic year.
These boys represent the best of modern Orthidoxy
what a kiddush hashem
It answers the question YU? BC we’re great bballers
Interesting
Big nachas, Dr. Revel z”l must be kvelling in shomayim. 😉
Congratulations and they all go on to continue learning and eventually earning
Not going from Shul to Shul asking for handouts
I think it is not as bad as the Lubavitcher boxers Salita and Foreman, but still hesitate to label it a Kiddush Hashem. If they need exercise and an outlet, I understand that, but wouldn’t make a big focus of it.