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Yeshiva's Ryan Turell was voted as Player of the Year by the conference's head coaches

Men's Basketball

#SkylineMBB All-Conference Team Announced

Yeshiva's Ryan Turell was voted as Player of the Year by the conference's head coaches
NEW YORK | The Skyline Conference's 12 head men's basketball coaches have cast their votes on the 2019-20 all-conference team, and Yeshiva University sophomore guard Ryan Turell has been selected as Player of the Year.

Turell's teammate, freshman guard Ofek Reef, was chosen as Rookie of the Year, while the Maccabees' sixth-year mentor, Elliot Steinmetz, received Coach of the Year accolades in a vote by his peers. Farmingdale State College senior forward Jermaine Fraser was voted as Defensive Player of the Year.

Turell will enter this week's 2020 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship as the leading scorer in the Skyline, averaging 23 points per contest. He also tops the conference leaderboard with a .623 field-goal percentage, and ranks eighth with an average of 3.4 assists per contest.

Fraser's 8.8 rebounds per game are the fourth-best mark in the conference, while he ranked sixth and 12th in blocked shots (1.4/gm.) and steals (1.6/gm.), respectively. His rebounding helped the Rams to a plus-7.2 margin per game, ranking second in the Skyline.

Reef averaged 10.8 points per game as the Maccabees' sixth man, shooting 58 percent from the field in the process (114-of-198).

Steinmetz, a 2002 Yeshiva alumnus, was tabbed as Coach of the Year by his peers for the second time in his career (2016-17). He has led the Macs thus far to a 27-1 record, including an unblemished 16-0 mark in regular-season conference play and the squad's second Skyline title in the last three seasons.

The 11-player all-conference team, as well as the 12 student-athletes named to the all-sportsmanship team, are listed below.
 
2020 Skyline Conference Men's Basketball All-Conference Team

First Team

Omar Jamaleddine, Sarah Lawrence (So., G/F; Middle Village, N.Y.)
Gabriel Leifer, Yeshiva (Sr., F; Lawrence, N.Y.)
Elijah Lott, Purchase (Sr., G; Albany, N.Y.)
Pedro Marquez, Old Westbury (Sr., G; Harlem, N.Y.)
Hunter Schenkel, Farmingdale State (Sr., F; Sayville, N.Y.)
Ryan Turell, Yeshiva (So., G; Los Angeles, Calif.)

Second Team

Frank Basile, St. Joseph's-Long Island (Sr., G; Islip, N.Y.)
JoJo Cobbs, Manhattanville (Sr., G; Elmsford, N.Y.)
Kendall Francis, Mount Saint Mary (Sr., G; Great Neck, N.Y.)
Simcha Halpert, Yeshiva (Sr., G; Los Angeles, Calif.)
Charles Wingate, Old Westbury (Jr., G; Baldwin, N.Y.)

Player of the Year: Ryan Turell, Yeshiva
Defensive Player of the Year: Jermaine Fraser, Farmingdale State (Sr., F; Valley Stream, N.Y.)
Rookie of the Year: Ofek Reef, Yeshiva (Fr., G; Plano, Texas)
Coach of the Year: Elliot Steinmetz, Yeshiva (sixth season)

All-Sportsmanship Team

Anthony Miller, Jr., Farmingdale State
Cory Madden, Manhattanville
Griffin McNally, Maritime
Jameson Morton, Mount Saint Mary
Vinny Tavella, Mount Saint Vincent
Jordan Johnson-Rader, Old Westbury
Jorge Perdomo, Purchase
Kavan Meiner, St. Joseph's-Brooklyn
Jonah Caldwell, St. Joseph's-Long Island
Enike Anyia, Sarah Lawrence
Michael Bell, USMMA
Daniel Katz, Yeshiva