If the preview was about habits, this was about proof.

After flirting with disaster the last time these two met, the Yeshiva Macs made sure there would be no fourth-quarter suspense, no late free-throw exhale, no “why is this a two-point game?” anxiety.

Instead? A statement.

Playing in their penultimate home game of the regular season, the Macs dismantled Mount Saint Vincent 107–71 on Tuesday night at the Max Stern Athletic Center — moving to 14–0 in Skyline play and looking like a team sharpening itself for March. This wasn’t a lab experiment. This wasn’t “let’s see what lineups work.”This was controlled, mature, playoff-level basketball.

And it started exactly the way we said it needed to. They started sharp and never took their foot off the gas.