The Sacramento State men’s basketball team will face off against UC Davis in the basketball version of the Causeway Classic at 7:05 p.m. at the Hornets Nest.

-The Hornets come into the contest with a 1-2 record after road losses at Michigan and Long Beach State. The Hornets lone win came at home on Nov. 22 against Southern Utah.

-Senior Jameel Pugh currently leads the team in scoring with an average of 12.3 points. He scored a career-high 25 points against Southern Utah, but scored just four and eight points against Michigan and Long Beach, respectively.

-Alex Bausley leads the teams in minutes played (31.7) and averages 10 points and a team-high 6.3 rebounds. E.J. Harris is shooting close to 48 percent from the floor and averages 9.7 points.

-Sac State is shooting 37 percent from the field, while its opponents are shooting 47 percent.

-The Hornets have played like two different teams at home and on the road. Sac State were 10-4 at home last season and are 1-0 thus far this season, but the team has lost 13 of its last 16 road games dating back to last season.

-The home meeting against Davis will be the first between the two teams since the 1997-98 season, a game the Hornets lost 66-59. The Hornets are 52-31 all-time against their rivals.

-“I am approaching (UC Davis) as a regular game,” Jenkins said. “A lot of people are making a big deal of it and obviously it’s a very important game, but every game is very important to us.”

-The Aggies are currently 1-1 on the season, after an 86-53 squashing of Division III UC Santa Cruz and an 81-55 loss on the road against a very difficult Utah State team.

-The Aggies are returning four starters to a team that went 18-9 last season. The team is in its second of a four-year reclassification process to Division I and the Big West Conference.

-The Aggies are shooting 53 percent from the field and 43 percent from 3-point range.

-“They are small so they can draw our big guys out to the perimeter when we’re on defense, but I think we are athletic enough to guard them,” Jenkins said.Against Long Beach (1-2) this past weekend, the Hornets helped the 49ers snap a 12-game losing streak, losing 87-63. The team shot 26 percent and was out-rebounded 38-31. The Hornets forced 24 turnovers, but turned it over 23 times.

-“Credit Long Beach State,” Jenkins said. “they whooped our butts.”

-Junior Jason Harris led Sac State in scoring with 15 points. Anthony Coleman led the 49ers with 26 points and grabbed eight rebounds.

– The absence of point guard James Payne — who is academically ineligible until January — left the Hornets without a true point guard when DaShawn Freeman and E.J. Harris sat with three early fouls each. Jason Harris and Alex Bausley both worked as point guard. Jenkins said the team just tried to move the ball up court with passes.

-Midway through the first half, Long Beach went on a 13-3 run to take a 34-20 lead with 4:48 left in the first half. Long Beach State extended its lead to 46-27 on a layup by Travon Free with 1 second remaining in the first half.

-The Hornets rallied early in the second half and cut the 49ers lead to 50-38 on a basket by Jason Harris. However, Coleman and Louis Darby led a 31-12 Long Beach State run to secure the 49ers win.

-Pugh’s career high 25 points in the 74-67 win against Southern Utah included 8-of-15 shooting and 4-of-7 from 3-point range with two coming in the game’s final minutes. During a stretch midway through the second half, Pugh scored 12 straight Hornets points.

-Southern Utah rallied from a 21-point deficit in the second half to close it to 69-66 on a Curtis Lincoln layup with a just two minutes remaining, but Pugh answered right back on a 3-pointer that ultimately put the Thunderbirds out of reach.

-“This was a great learning lesson for our guys,” head coach Jerome Jenkins said. “I know some of the guys thought it was over, but it’s never over until that final buzzer goes off.”

-E.J. Harris also scored a career high in the win. He finished with 14 points on 5-of-8 shooting including three 3-pointers — all of his 3-pointers came during an 11-0 run of his own to close out the first half.

-Alex Bausley was the third Hornet to finish with a career high in the contest — both in points (12) and rebounds (10). It was the first double-double of his career. His previous career highs were 11 and nine, respectively.

-In the Hornets 70-49 loss against Michigan, the team trailed by just three at halftime, but was outscored 36-18 in the second half.

-The Hornets have been outscored in the second half of every game including its exhibition win against NAIA Bethany College.

-The Hornets have started Jason Harris, Aaron Perry, Bausley, Freeman, and Pugh all three games this season.

-Nine of the eleven active Hornets have logged an average of over 10 minutes per game.

-*The Associated Press contributed to this article.