In front of a sold-out crowd, the Sacramento State men’s basketball team beat University of the Pacific 74-72 with a buzzer beater by senior Haron Hargrave in overtime.

“I was just thinking of the Derek Fisher shot from the Lakers with :00.4 seconds left. It felt like it was going on for hours,” Hargrave said.

With :00.4 seconds left, Hargrave took his shot while falling out of bounds only to be caught by screaming fans who stormed the court and lifted him on their shoulders to celebrate the Hornets’ victory.

“The crowd was really into it and it feels good; like March Madness or the Final Four,” Hargrave said.

Hargrave was 7-of-9 from the free throw line and scored 18 points in 28 minutes, and grabbed three rebounds.

“If I went home the leading scorer and we lost, then I could care less about that. All I care about is that victory,” Hargrave said.

Sac State was outrebounded by its opponent again with Pacific grabbing 44 to the Hornets’ 42. Angel Alamo said Sac State has never really had a top rebounder and he’s trying to help fill in the blanks.

“Coach showed me film and told me I was the 27th rebounder in the nation and I said ‘No I want to be top ten,'” Alamo said.

Alamo led the team in rebounds by grabbing eight.

Until Hargrave’s buzzer-beating three-pointer, Alamo was the leading scorer with 17 points, shooting 6-of-7 field goals and 5-of-8 from the charity stripe in his 42 minutes.

“If I can’t be scoring, I might as well be getting the ball to the guards and doing the garbage work,” Alamo said.

Junior Jason Davis pulled down seven boards for the Hornets, shot 50 percent from the free throw line and blocked two shots in 17 minutes.

In 22 minutes, junior Justin Williams scored eight points and tore down six rebounds and made 4-of-6 field goals.

Sophomore Loren Leath scored a career-low two points in his 32 minutes of play, shooting 1-of-8 from the field and 0-of-2 from three.

Pacific shot 42.9 percent while the Hornets shot 39.1 percent.

“Coach said we haven’t beat that team since 1964 and they won the Big West Conference last year. They’re a good team,” Hargrave said.

From the free throw line, the Hornets shot just 57.6 percent.

“I just told the guys we had to put it behind us. We should have put it away at the free throw line,” coach Jerome Jenkins said.

“We just had to put it behind us and play an extra five minutes to win it,” Jenkins told his team before the overtime period.

“Everyone said we couldn’t win a close basketball game, and this was our night to prove it,” Jenkins said.

The Hornets return to the Nest for the Big Sky season opener on Jan. 4 against Montana.