Newburgh, N.Y. – The Mount Saint Mary College Men's Basketball team will host its second nationally ranked opponent of the season Wednesday night when the Knights welcome #7 Yeshiva to the Kaplan Center. Live Stats and Video will be available for the 8:00 p.m. tip-off.
 
Spectator Policy: Per Skyline Conference policy, NO FANS will be permitted at Wednesday's game.
 
At A Glance: After winning five of six contests and moving to within a game of the .500 mark overall, the Knights have dropped their last three outings and stand at 5-9 overall and 3-3 in Skyline Conference play. The Knights are coming off a hard fought 65-63 road loss at Sarah Lawrence on Monday evening.
 
After scoring a team-high 16 points against the Gryphons on Monday, Chris Yearwood (Red Hook, N.Y.) leads the Mount Saint Mary scoring attack with 14.5 points per game on 42.7-percent shooting overall and a 41-percent clip from three-point range. Yearwood adds 3.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game through the first 14 contests of the season.
 
Jayden Figueroa (New Windsor, N.Y.) is securing a team and conference-high 10.7 rebounds per game and is coming off a career-high 19 caroms on Monday. He chips in 9.0 points and 1.2 blocks per game and is converting at 48-percent from the floor.
 
Connor Cyran (Garfield, N.J.) and Paul Sienke (Washington, D.C.) support the Mount's offensive attack with 9.9 and 9.1 points per game, respectively. Cyran has scored in double-figures in the last two contests and is converting at 45.6-percent on the season to go along with 4.7 rebounds per night. Sienke chips in nearly four rebounds and two assists per night for the Mount.
 
Entering Wednesday's contest, Mount Saint Mary is scoring 64.1 points per game on 40.2-percent shooting, a 30.7-percent mark from three-point range and a 66.2-percent mark from the free-throw line.

Scouting Yeshiva: The Maccabees come to town sporting a 14-1 overall record and a perfect 7-0 record in league play. Yeshiva is in action for the first time since a 73-59 loss to then #4 Illinois Wesleyan on December 30, a defeat that stopped a 50-game winning streak, the second longest such streak in NCAA Division III History. Yeshiva started the season ranked preseason #3 and rose to as high as #1 in the country before its loss to the Titans.
 
The Maccabees have not lost a conference regular season decision since a tight 98-96 loss to Purchase on February 18, 2019 and have not fell to a conference opponent overall since dropping an 81-75 contest to Farmingdale State in the 2019 Skyline Conference Championship Final.
 
The Maccabees boast a pair of D3Hoops.com Preseason All-Americans in Ryan Turell and Gabriel Leifer with Turell named First Team All-American, while Leifer started the season as a Second Team selection. Turrel leads the team and the Skyline Conference in scoring with 29.3 points per game on 60.7-percent shooting overall and a 47.2-percent mark from three-point range. He adds better than six rebounds per game and nearly three helpers per contest and was recently named to the top-100 watch list for the Bevo Francis Award, the top Small College Player of the Year honor.
 
Leifer averages nearly a triple-double for the Maccabees, leading the conference with 7.7 assists per game to go along with 10.1 boards and nearly nine points per outing. Leifer has recorded at least 10 assists in a game four times, including 16 helpers as part of a triple-double against Washington College on December 9.
 
Ofek Reef is good for better than 16 points per game on the season on 62.4-percent shooting with Eitan Halpert checking in with 13.8 points per game to go along with nearly four rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.4 steals per contest.
 
Yeshiva returns to action scoring just under 90 points per game and is outscoring opponents by better than 26 points per outing. The Maccabees shoot 54.8-percent overall as a team, 40.7-percent from three-point range and 64.9-percent from the free-throw line.
 
Recent History: The two sides have met 27 times since the start of the 2006-07 season with the Knights holding 17 victories. The Mount won nine straight contests from December 14, 2010 through February 19, 2014, but have dropped six of the last eight meetings in the series.
 
What's Next: The Knights will continue a stretch against Skyline Conference South Division rivals on Saturday when they travel to Farmingdale State.