BRONX, N.Y. - Yeshiva University men's basketball senior student-athlete, Dovie Hoffman (Tarzana, Calif.) became the 25th player in program history to record 1,000 career points, as he reached the milestone Tuesday night at APEX Arena on a free throw with 2:39 remaining in the Maccabees' 55-52, non-conference triumph at Lehman College.

Hoffman, a first-team All-Skyline Conference selection in 2011-12, scored 12 points (career total to date: 1,001 points) and added nine rebounds for YU (5-6), winners in four of its last five outings and five of its last seven. His record free throw was part of a game-changing, 11-0 run for the Macs, who trailed by as many as eight points to the host Lightning (5-3) and turned a 47-42 deficit into a 53-47 advantage over a 6:56 stretch that was capped by junior Shlomo Weissberg's (Skokie, Ill.; game-highs of 20 points and 13 rebounds) lay-in with 1:11 to go. Lehman cut its deficit to 54-52 with under 22 seconds remaining and gained possession on a subsequent YU turnover, but Hoffman pulled down a key rebound of an off-the-mark 3-point effort from the hosts with 11 seconds to play. He converted one-of-two free throws, before the Lightning's potential game-tying trifecta at the horn did not go down.

Yeshiva enjoyed a 42-30 rebounding margin, as well as scoring edges in the points in the paint (28-22) and second-chance points (13-9) categories to help get back on the winning track after a narrow Skyline Conference defeat at home last Thursday (Dec. 13) to conference-leading Old Westbury. Senior Gil Bash (Tel Aviv, Israel) did a little of everything for the Macs, registering eight points, seven assists (a game-high) and six rebounds. Ironically, on a night when the nation's leader in 3-point field-goal percentage was off on all but one of its eight long-range efforts, YU assisted on 13 of its 19 field goals en route to an 18-for-32 (.563) mark inside the arc.

Head coach Dr. Jonathan Halpert's Yeshiva side is back on its home court in the Max Stern Athletic Center on Dec. 27, when it plays host to City University of New York Athletic Conference co-leader, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in an 8 p.m. tip-off.