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Von Hofe played college basketball at Eastern Washington from the 2013–14 season through 2016–17 under head coach Jim Hayford, finishing his career as the winningest player in the school’s NCAA Division I history while Eastern won 81 games during his four seasons in Cheney.

Von Hofe attended Eastern Washington University with fellow Australians Geremy McKay, Jesse Hunt, Michael Wearne, Mason Peatling and EWU all-time leading scorer Venky Jois, and he ultimately set the school record for games played with 128, which was two ahead of the previous record of 126 set by former teammate Parker Kelly (2012–15).

As a freshman in 2013–14, Von Hofe appeared in 28 games, averaging 8.6 minutes per game with 2.9 points, 0.6 rebounds and 0.2 assists, while shooting 38.2% from the field, 33.3% on three-pointers and 64.3% at the line.

Eastern’s year-by-year records list the 2013–14 Eagles as a 15–16 team (10–10 Big Sky), and Von Hofe’s early rotation role set the base for a career that would become heavily three-point driven as his minutes and attempts increased season by season.

In 2014–15, Von Hofe played in 33 games and made four starts, averaging 15.5 minutes with 5.1 points, 1.4 rebounds and 0.6 assists, and he shot 41.1% from the field and 41.2% from three-point range, reflecting a jump in perimeter efficiency as Eastern finished 26–9 overall (14–4 Big Sky), won the Big Sky Tournament, and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.

Von Hofe’s 2014–15 campaign included a notable Big Sky Tournament performance when he erupted for 23 points on 8-of-10 shooting and 7-of-8 from three-point range against Sacramento State (3/14/15), and three of his starts came during a stretch in early February when he stepped into the lineup with Tyler Harvey sidelined and Eastern maintained first place in league play during that window.

As a junior in 2015–16, Von Hofe moved into a major scoring role, playing 33 games at 32.5 minutes per game and averaging 13.0 points, 3.5 rebounds and 0.9 assists while shooting 43.8% from the field, 42.3% from three and 77.2% on free throws, and he finished that season with 105 made three-pointers to rank fourth for a single season in Eastern Washington history and seventh all-time in the Big Sky Conference for one season.

Eastern ranked fifth in NCAA Division I in 2015–16 with 10.5 made three-pointers per game, and Von Hofe ranked 17th nationally at 3.18 threes per game (second in the Big Sky) while also earning Big Sky Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week honours on 12/21/2015 after back-to-back career-best scoring efforts that included a 28-point performance at Denver on 12/20/2015 (9-of-18 FG, 8-of-14 3PT) following a 27-point game at Western Carolina.

Von Hofe closed the 2015–16 season with Eastern’s run to the College Basketball Invitational, including the program’s first NCAA Division I postseason tournament win when Eastern beat Pepperdine on 3/16/2016, and he followed that by scoring 20 points against Nevada on 6-of-9 three-point shooting in the season-ending CBI loss, with that two-game finish also featuring a career-high nine rebounds versus Pepperdine in the first round win.

In 2016–17, the senior played 34 games at 33.4 minutes per game and averaged 11.2 points, 3.1 rebounds and 0.9 assists while shooting 38.7% from the field, 38.4% from three and 79.2% at the free throw line, and Eastern finished 22–12 overall (13–5 Big Sky) while reaching the CBI again after a Big Sky Tournament run that ended in the semifinals.

Von Hofe’s senior-year highlights included a 22-point Big Sky-opening win at Idaho (12/30/16) that featured six made threes, a 20-point outing against Southern Utah (3/2/17) that pushed him past 1,000 career points as the 21st Eagle to reach the milestone, and a 17-point effort in his final game versus Wyoming (3/15/17) in the CBI in which he hit five three-pointers.

Across his four-year career, Von Hofe finished as the 21st Eagle to join the 1,000-point club and ended ranked 18th in school history with 1,058 career points, while also moving to sixth in Big Sky Conference history for career three-pointers with 262 and breaking Eastern Washington’s previous school record of 260 set by Tyler Harvey (2013–15) in the final game of his career.

Von Hofe also set Eastern Washington’s career records for three-point volume, finishing with 657 attempts from deep (breaking Harvey’s former mark of 602) while shooting .399 on threes to place 12th on the school’s career percentage list, and he logged 13 games of 20 points or more as an Eagle, including seven as a junior in 2015–16 and five in 2016–17, with 42 career double-figure scoring games and 11 times leading Eastern in scoring (including twice as a senior).