{"id":54421,"date":"2020-03-26T21:33:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T03:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=54421"},"modified":"2020-03-26T21:33:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T03:33:43","slug":"more-firsts-for-yeshiva-u-mens-basketball-2-all-americans-and-the-national-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/more-firsts-for-yeshiva-u-mens-basketball-2-all-americans-and-the-national-coach-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"More firsts for Yeshiva U men\u2019s basketball: 2 All-Americans and the National Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 In a history-making season for the Yeshiva University men\u2019s basketball team, here are a couple more firsts: two players named All-America, including one on the first team, and a coach chosen as national Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54422\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54422\" class=\"wp-image-54422 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell-768x884.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell-890x1024.jpg 890w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell.jpg 948w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 261px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 261\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54422\" class=\"wp-image-54422 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell-768x884.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell-890x1024.jpg 890w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-25-20-ryan-Turell.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-54422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Turell plays in a game for the Yeshiva University Maccabees. (Courtesy of Yeshiva University)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The players are Ryan Turell, a sophomore guard from Los Angeles who was chosen as one of the top five players in the country, and Gabe Leifer, a senior forward from Lawrence, New York, who was selected to the fourth team.<\/p>\n<p>The coach is Elliot Steinmetz, who in his sixth season guiding the Maccabees led the squad to a 29-1 record, the best in school history, and an appearance in the NCAA Division III\u2019s Sweet 16.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament was canceled due to the coronavirus, but not until Yeshiva had won its first two games, another first for the flagship institution of Modern Orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: Yeshiva University\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team made history \u2014 before the coronavirus canceled its season<\/p>\n<p>Turell and Leifer are the first Y.U. players to be honored by D3hoops.com, which has been selecting All-America squads for 23 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Turell, also the Skyline Conference\u2019s Player of the Year, earned his accolades by averaging a team best 23.9 points, including shooting an outstanding 46% from three-point range, as well as 5.9 rebounds a game. The 6-7 point guard poured in 41 and 30 points, respectively, in the Macs\u2019 NCAA tournament victories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRyan has been a constant in every game he\u2019s played and commands the game from the one spot,\u201d the university\u2019s director of athletics, Joe Bednarsh, said on the team\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>With Steinmetz at the helm, Yeshiva ripped off 29 consecutive victories following a loss in its opening game and was ranked No. 8 in the country at one point by D3hoops.com. He is the first coach to take the Macs to the NCAA tournament, first pulling off the feat two seasons ago. But the club lost in the opening round that year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat an amazing close to a season like no other,\u201d Bednarsh said. \u201cWhat can I say about Elliot except that he\u2019s done everything to make this program the national force that it is and has helped energize the entire Jewish world behind the Maccabees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leifer, at 6-5, averaged 16 points per game as well as team highs with 13.7 rebounds and 6.6 assists. Like Turell, he excelled in big games, picking up triple-doubles (points, rebounds and assists) in the Skyline Conference championship game victory and in one of the NCAA tournament games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGabe has been a force in this league from the first day he stepped onto the court and is certainly one of the 20 best players in the country,\u201d Bednarsh said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"More%20firsts%20for%20Yeshiva%20U%20men%E2%80%99s%20basketball%3A%202%20All-Americans%20and%20the%20National%20Coach%20of%20the%20Year\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[8790,8795,8788,1481],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54423,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54421\/revisions\/54423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}