Ryan Turell saw it coming before anyone else did. He watched Zevi Samet as a freshman and said it out loud: “This kid is going to break all my records.”Two weeks ago, Samet took the program scoring crown.on Saturday night? He went even further — 52 points in 29 minutes, the most ever in a single game at YU.

By the time he was done, the Maccabees had done more than overwhelm the United States Merchant Marine Academy in a 110–72 win — the 11-0 Skyline Conference boys had also clinched a first-round home playoff game on February 24. One performance delivered both history and positioning, the kind of night that shifts a season.