Full set of game notes (26 pages) - pdf
GAME PREVIEW
• Fresh off its first loss of the season on Thursday night at UC Santa Barbara, Sacramento State (3-1) will play its second road game in three days when the team travels to Northridge for a matchup with CSUN (1-4) on Saturday night at 7:05 p.m.
• The Hornets' 75-58 loss on Thursday at Santa Barbara marked their first road game of the season, and Saturday's game will be the second leg of a season-high tying three-game road trip. Sacramento State will also travel to Portland on Dec. 8.
• Saturday's game will be the fourth straight against a Big West Conference foe, which includes a 58-55 neutral court win against UC Davis at the downtown Golden 1 Center, and an 87-82 overtime victory against Cal State Fullerton at the Nest.
• UC Davis is the reigning Big West regular season champion and Cal State Fullerton is the league's reigning tournament champion.
• The Hornets would have played five straight against Big West opponents, but their Nov. 16 game vs. Cal Poly was postponed due to poor air quality related the Camp Fire.
• The Hornets currently rank among the nation's top 20 teams (there are 353 Div. I teams) in steals per game (12th, 9.8), 3-point field goal percentage defense (13th, .257) and turnovers forced per game (16th, 18.3)
• CSUN, which used to be called Cal State Northridge, brings a 1-4 record into Saturday's game and will be playing their fourth home game of the season. The Matadors most recently lost on the road at Washington State, 103-94, on Nov. 27.
• The Matadors' lone win came at home (80-77) over Tennessee State on Nov. 20.
• Sacramento State is 2-0 in games decided by six points or less after going 2-10 in that same scenario a year ago.
• In a series which dates back to 1960, Sacramento State is 8-29 against CSUN. That includes a 1-15 mark when playing in Northridge. The Hornets have dropped 13 straight games at Northridge with the only win on the Matadors' home floor coming in a 58-56 outcome on Nov. 25, 1986.
• The two teams played a year ago inside the Nest (Dec. 19, 2017) with the Hornets pulling out a 66-61 victory. In that game, Sacramento State used a 9-2 run over the final 3:49 of the contest.
• The Hornets are coming off an injury plagued 2017-18 season in which the team finished 7-25 overall and 4-14 in the Big Sky Conference. The Hornets had won at least 13 games five consecutive seasons until the seven-win output a year ago.
• The Hornets welcome back eight players and a redshirt from a year ago, including three starters. That includes six of the top eight scorers from last season.
• Led by first-year head coach Mark Gottfried, the Matadors return just five players and one starter from last season's team which finished 6-24 overall and 3-13 in the Big West.
MULTIMEDIA OPTIONS
• Saturday's game will be video streamed live on Big West TV.
• All Sacramento State home games inside the Nest, and road games played against a Big Sky Conference team, will be video streamed for free on Pluto TV and WatchBigSky.com. The Pluto broadcasts can be watched online at Pluto.TV or by downloading the app for your mobile device. Home games can be found on Pluto.TV channel 233.
• Every game this year will be broadcast live on ESPN 1320 AM with 22nd-year play-by-play man Steve McElroy calling all the action.
• Links for all multimedia options, including live stats for every game, can be found next to each game on the men's basketball schedule at www.hornetsports.com.

February 16, 2019
MEN’S HOOPS FALLS AT HOME TO NORTHERN ARIZONA

February 14, 2019
MEN'S HOOPS CONTINUES HOMESTAND THURSDAY NIGHT VS. SOUTHERN UTAH

February 11, 2019
MEN’S BASKETBALL NEVER TRAILS IN 78-67 HOME WIN OVER PORTLAND STATE

February 9, 2019
LATE SURGE DOOMS MEN’S HOOPS IN 65-59 ROAD LOSS AT NORTHERN COLORADO

February 1, 2019
MEN'S HOOPS CONTINUES ROAD TRIP SATURDAY NIGHT AT WEBER STATE

January 30, 2019
MEN'S HOOPS OPENS THREE-GAME ROAD TRIP ON THURSDAY AT IDAHO STATE


January 25, 2019
MEN'S HOOPS BACK AT HOME SATURDAY NIGHT VS. EASTERN WASHINGTON

January 24, 2019
MEN’S HOOPS CRUISES TO 69-48 HOME WIN OVER IDAHO

January 23, 2019
MEN'S HOOPS BACK AT HOME; HOST IDAHO ON THURSDAY NIGHT AT 7 PM

January 18, 2019
MEN'S HOOPS TO PLAY ROAD MATINEE ON SATURDAY AT SOUTHERN UTAH


January 15, 2019
MEN'S HOOPS BEGINS BRIEF ROAD TRIP THURSDAY AT NORTHERN ARIZONA

January 12, 2019
MEN’S HOOPS DROPS LAST SECOND HEART BREAKER TO IDAHO STATE, 72-70

January 10, 2019
MEN'S HOOPS HOSTS IDAHO STATE ON SATURDAY FOR KIDS NIGHT


January 4, 2019
MEN'S HOOPS GETS SET FOR SATURDAY MATINEE AT MONTANA STATE

December 27, 2018
MEN'S HOOPS OPENS BIG SKY PLAY ON SATURDAY AT HOME VS NORTHERN COLORADO

December 21, 2018
MEN’S BASKETBALL LEADS AT HALFTIME, BUT EVENTUALLY FALLS AT WASHINGTON

December 19, 2018
MEN'S BASKETBALL TRAVELS TO WASHINGTON FOR FRIDAY NIGHT GAME AT 6 PM

December 11, 2018
MEN’S BASKETBALL USES LATE 29-2 RUN TO BEAT HOLY NAMES, 81-56

December 10, 2018
MEN'S HOOPS BACK AT HOME TUESDAY NIGHT VS. HOLY NAMES AT 7 PM

December 8, 2018
MEN’S HOOPS DROPS TO 4-2 AFTER 76-67 LOSS AT PORTLAND

December 6, 2018
MEN'S BASKETBALL WRAPS UP ROAD TRIP ON SATURDAY AT PORTLAND

December 5, 2018
MEN’S BASKETBALL ADDS HOME GAME ON THURSDAY, DEC. 13



November 27, 2018
HUGE WEEK LANDS GRAVES BIG SKY PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS

November 24, 2018
MEN’S HOOPS NOW 3-0 AFTER 87-82 OVERTIME WIN AGAINST CAL STATE FULLERTON



November 16, 2018
FRIDAY NIGHT’S MEN’S BASKETBALL HOME GAME AGAINST CAL POLY POSTPONED

November 14, 2018
SECOND GAME OF THE SEASON: MEN'S HOOPS HOSTS CAL POLY

September 26, 2018
MEN’S HOOPS SEASON ON THE HORIZON, FIRST OFFICIAL TEAM PRACTICE IS FRIDAY

September 12, 2018
FORMER MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH DON NEWMAN PASSES AWAY

July 24, 2018
MEN’S BASKETBALL RELEASES THE 2018-19 SCHEDULE

July 19, 2018
THE NEST RECEIVES A BRAND NEW FLOOR DESIGN
