2017-18 Schedule
SACRAMENTO -- After five weeks of official team practices, the Sacramento State men's basketball squad will play its lone exhibition game this Friday against UC Santa Cruz inside the Nest. The game will tip at 7:35 p.m., and will be part of a doubleheader that will see the Hornet women's team host Holy Names at 5:05 p.m.
The men open the regular season schedule on Friday, Nov. 10, at Colorado State. Sacramento State will play inside the Nest just twice during the entire month of November, which includes the home opener against Notre Dame de Namur on Nov. 14. The Hornets will also play UC Davis at the Golden 1 Center on Nov. 21.
Tickets for Friday's doubleheader are just $5, and that ticket will get fans into both games. Just like every athletics event on campus, Sacramento State students will be admitted free with a valid One Card.
Sacramento State is coming off a 2016-17 season in which the team went 13-18 overall and 9-9 in the Big Sky Conference. The Hornets began the season with a 3-8 non-conference record, and then fell to 3-11 overall and 0-3 in the Big Sky. However, an 88-83 win at Southern Utah on Jan. 12 began a streak in which the Hornets won 10 of their final 17 games.
The Hornets welcome back eight players from a year ago, including three starters. Among those starters are senior forward Justin Strings (15.9 ppg), senior guard Marcus Graves (13.9 ppg) and sophomore guard Izayah Mauriohooho-Le'afa (4.6 ppg). However, Graves will miss the season because of injury meaning there will now be three new starters in the team's lineup.
Also returning are seniors Jiday Ugbaja and James Herrick, junior Jeff Wu, and sophomores Chibueze Jacobs and Joshua Patton. Sacramento State fans may get a chance to see some or all of the Hornet newcomers in the exhibition, a list that includes juniors Kevin Hicks, Calvin Martin, Cristian Perez and Jordan Tolbert, as well as freshmen Bryce Fowler and Jamion Wright.
Friday's game will not be on the radio nor will it be video streamed. Once the regular season begins, 21st-year play-by-play man Steve McElroy will call all the action for every game on KTKZ 1380 AM The Answer. All games will be streamed via www.hornetsports.com as well.
Free video streams of all home games and contests played at a Big Sky venue, via www.WatchBigSky.com and Pluto TV, will be available once the regular season begins. Multimedia links for every game can be found on the men's basketball schedule on the website.
NOTES
• The Hornets and UC Santa Cruz have played three times previously, the last was a 2013-14 season-opening win that saw Sacramento State defeat the Banana Slugs, 73-43. The Hornets have won all three meetings between the two teams by at least 25 points.
• UC Santa Cruz is a Div. III school with an enrollment of 17,335. The Slugs posted a 12-13 record a season ago, including a 5-4 mark away from home.
• Friday will mark the first game for UC Santa Cruz as the Slugs will play two exhibition games, including Nov. 10 at Fresno State.
• Men's basketball is entering its 70th year at Sacramento State (1948-pres.), and made the transition to the Div. I level prior to the 1991-92 season.


April 11, 2018
MEN’S BASKETBALL SIGNS CLARK HIGH SCHOOL’S JAMES BRIDGES

February 21, 2018
MEN'S BASKETBALL BEGINS FINAL REGULAR SEASON ROAD TRIP THURSDAT AT NAU

February 17, 2018
STRINGS ACHIEVES HUGE MILESTONE; MEN’S HOOPS FALLS TO WEBER STATE

February 16, 2018
MEN'S BASKETBALL HOSTS WEBER STATE ON SATURDAY FOR WHITEOUT THE NEST


February 9, 2018
MEN'S HOOPS PLAYS AT MONTANA ON SATURDAY NIGHT

February 7, 2018
MEN'S BASKETBALL LOOKS FOR SERIES SWEEP OF MONTANA STATE ON THURSDAY

February 3, 2018
MEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS AT HOME TO IDAHO

February 2, 2018
MEN'S BASKETBALL HOSTS IDAHO ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT 7 PM


January 26, 2018
MEN'S HOOPS CONCLUDES ROAD TRIP SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT PORTLAND STATE

January 20, 2018
MEN’S BASKETBALL DROPS SECOND GAME OF ROAD TRIP TO IDAHO STATE

January 19, 2018
MEN'S HOOPS PLAYS AT IDAHO STATE ON SATURDAY NIGHT

January 18, 2018
LATE RUN DOOMS MEN’S BASKETBALL IN LOSS TO WEBER STATE

January 17, 2018
MEN'S HOOPS OPENS ROAD TRIP ON THURSDAY AT WEBER STATE

January 12, 2018
MEN'S BASKETBALL TO HOST MONTANA STATE ON SATURDAY FOR KIDS DAY

January 11, 2018
MONTANA USES BIG SECOND HALF TO BEAT MEN’S BASKETBALL, 78-66

January 10, 2018
MEN'S HOOPS BACK IN THE NEST ON THURSDAY VS. MONTANA AT 7 P.M.

January 3, 2018
MEN'S HOOPS PLAYS FIRST BIG SKY ROAD GAME THURSDAY AT IDAHO

January 2, 2018
STRINGS RECEIVES BIG SKY PLAYER OF THE WEEK ACCOLADES

January 1, 2018
STRINGS NAMED THE NATIONAL MID-MAJOR PLAYER OF THE WEEK


December 29, 2017
MEN'S HOOPS OPENS BIG SKY PLAY AT HOME SATURDAY VS. PORTLAND STATE

December 23, 2017
MEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS AT HOME TO UC SANTA BARBARA, 82-72

December 22, 2017
MEN'S HOOPS HOSTS UC SANTA BARBARA ON SATURDAY IN FINAL NON-LEAGUE GAME

December 21, 2017
MEN’S HOOPS FALLS TO PORTLAND, 80-75, IN GOLDEN 1 CENTER MATCHUP

December 20, 2017
MEN'S HOOPS PLAYS PORTLAND AT THE GOLDEN 1 CENTER ON THURSDAY AT 5:30 PM

December 18, 2017
MEN'S HOOPS BACK AT HOME TUESDAY VS. CSUN

December 9, 2017
MEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS AT BOISE STATE


December 3, 2017
MEN'S BASKETBALL TO PLAY SAINT MARY'S ON THE ROAD MONDAY NIGHT

November 24, 2017
BACK AND FORTH GAME GOES FULLERTON’S WAY IN 68-63 WIN OVER MEN’S HOOPS


November 23, 2017
MEN’S BASKETBALL DROPS FIRST ROUND WOODEN LEGACY GAME TO SAN DIEGO STATE

November 21, 2017
UC DAVIS USES LATE RUN TO EVENTUALLY BEAT MEN’S BASKETBALL

November 20, 2017
MEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYS UC DAVIS ON TUESDAY AT THE GOLDEN 1 CENTER

November 17, 2017
MEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS ON THE ROAD AT SAN FRANCISCO

November 16, 2017
MEN'S BASKETBALL BACK ON THE ROAD FRIDAY NIGHT AT SAN FRANCISCO


November 8, 2017
MEN’S BASKETBALL SIGNS DAMIEN HIGH SCHOOL GUARD ELIJAH McCULLOUGH

November 7, 2017
MEN'S HOOPS OPENS REGULAR SEASON FRIDAY AT COLORADO STATE


October 23, 2017
GRAVES OUT FOR THE SEASON WITH INJURY

October 17, 2017
MEN’S BASKETBALL RELEASES ITS 2017-18 SCHEDULE


September 18, 2017
BOISE’S CENTURYLINK ARENA TO HOST BIG SKY BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT FROM 2019-22

August 24, 2017
HORNSBY SIGNS CONTRACT TO PLAY PROFESSIONALLY IN GERMANY
