New York, N.Y. – The Mount Saint Mary College Men's Basketball returned to the court on Thursday night and suffered a 96-60 loss to Skyline Conference frontrunner Yeshiva. Jameson Morton (Woodstock, N.Y.) was one of two players in double figures for the Knights with a team-high 14 points.
 
The Knights got off to a solid start in the game and led by as many as three points three times in the early going. A Paul Sienke (Washington, D.C.) lay-in 1:40 into the contest pushed the Mount in front 6-3 and a Kendall Francis (Great Neck, N.Y.) three-pointer at the 16:15 mark of the first half gave the Knights an 11-8 advantage. After the Macs grabbed a 12-11 lead, the Knights answered with buckets from Ethan Fox (Wallingford, Conn.) and Morton to pull in front 15-12 with just over 15 minutes left before halftime.
 
Following the Morton bucket, the Maccabees used an 18-3 run to surge in front for good in the game. A pair of Ryan Turell free-throws pushed Yeshiva in front 17-15 and gave Yeshiva the lead for good in the game. A Jeffrey Owen bucket pushed Yeshiva in front by double-figures for the first time with 8:07 left in the half and a Daniel Katz layup capped the run with 7:12 left in the half and gave the Macs a 30-18 advantage.
 
The Knights would get their disadvantage down to seven points with 6:06 left before the break, but Yeshiva quickly spread its lead back to double-figures on a Turell three-point play. The Maccabees would not let the Knights closer than seven points the rest of the night and carried a 45-32 advantage into the half.
 
Yeshiva put the game away with a 21-2 run coming out of halftime that saw it surge in front 66-34 with just over 13 minutes left in regulation time. The Knights would not be able to get the deficit under 30 points the remainder of the evening and fell behind by a game-high 41 points on a Michael Bixon jumper with just shy of two minutes left in regulation time.
 
Yeshiva, who has won its last 17 games and has not lost since a 70-63 loss to the Mount on November 29, shot 51.5-percent from the floor for the game and went 6-for-18 from three-point range. The Knights were limited to 30.8-percent shooting and a 3-for-20 effort from three-point range. The Macs made 15 more field goals than the Knights in only three more attempts and turned 12 offensive rebounds into a 16-7 edge in second chance scoring.
 
Morton finished the game 4-for-7 from the floor and a perfect 6-for-6 from the free-throw line for the Mount, while Francis knocked in two of the team's three triples on his way to 10 points. Fox turned in a solid night with eight points and a team-high seven rebounds, while Tristan Millett (Allentown, N.J.) handed out a team-high three assists.
 
Yeshiva placed three players in double-figures, led by a game-high 22 points from Simcha Halper who finished up 9-for-14 from the floor with a trio of three-pointers. Turell and Gabriel Leifler each scored 17 points with Leifler closing a double-double with 14 rebounds and Turell leading all players with four assists.
 
Thursday's loss drops Mount Saint Mary to 13-10 overall on the season and 10-8 in Skyline Conference play. Next up for the Knights is the home finale against USMMA on Saturday at 3:00 p.m.