GAME 1

WHAT: UC Davis (11-7, 4-3) vs. UC Santa Barbara (12-10, 4-5)
WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022
TIME: 6 p.m. PT
WHERE: Davis, Calif.
ARENA: University Credit Union Center (6,001)
WATCH: ESPN+
LISTEN: KSAC 105.5
STATS
GAME NOTES

GAME 2

WHAT: UC Davis (11-7, 4-3) vs. CSUN (7-18, 3-9)
WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022
TIME: 5 p.m. PT
WHERE: Davis, Calif.
ARENA: University Credit Union Center (6,001)
WATCH: ESPN+
LISTEN: KSAC 105.5
STATS
GAME NOTES

OPENING TIP
In the midst of a three-game win streak, UC Davis continues a February home stand on Thursday and welcome the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos to Davis. 

Scott Marsh and Bob Williams will call the game on ESPN+ while Greg Wong and Bob Dunning will take their usual spots on the radio side, this time on 105.5 FM. 

With Thursday and Saturday's games marking the final two home contests of the season, the Aggies will recognize three graduating seniors on Saturday in a ceremony prior to the game against CSUN. Caleb Fuller, B.J. Shaw and Cameron Ba will each be honored for their time spent in an Aggie uniform. 

UC Davis enters Thursday in sixth in the Big West Conference standings with the Gauchos right behind in seventh, putting the Aggies in position to create separation. 

This week's games also see the watch on UC Davis' record book share center stage as Ezra Manjon continues his march toward 1,000 career points. 

The sophomore is now just 48 points from the milestone and averaging 22 points per game over his last four, he has an opportunity to achieve in front of his home crowd this week. 

Series Record vs. UCSB

• UC Davis leads 18-7
• Last UCSB win: 1/30/21 - A, 89-86
• Last UC Davis win: 2/13/20 - H, 84-75
• Series Streak: UCSB +3

QUOTABLE - HEAD COACH JIM LES - Feb. 19
• On playing following a two-week break: "It was just odd to have two weeks off at this time of year and breaking a game rhythm and a practice rhythm. I thought we made the difference in the game when we started to compete at a higher level. Our physicality picked up and we started to come up with the 50-50 balls that I thought [CSU Bakersfield] got in the first half. And that became the difference. Those are things we've got to do a better job controlling."

• On coaching during tightly officiated games: "We just talked about being aggressive and getting paint touches. I thought if we could spread the floor and get paint touches - all of our good offense came from that. Getting and living in the paint was really good for us and on a lot of that we got fouled."

• On intentionally fouling being up three in the final minutes: "Every game's a little bit different, I'm not set in stone. I felt confident with the guys I had out there to be able to execute that and they did a really nice job. It's a skill and it's an art, it's something that we work on situationally. But again, we haven't been around to work on those. So you're a little bit nervous about it but I thought the guys did a really nice job of executing. 

• On the potential to move up in the BWC standings: "We've got two more at home and that's huge. I know regardless of their record we're going to have to be a lot better than we were tonight. I expect us to be. If you want to be in the hunt in this league you've got win your home games, so we've got to take care of business at home and fortunately we were able to do that before the break with Hawai'i and again tonight." 

KEYS TO SUCCESS
• The Aggies got back to an area of strength over their last two games, turning the ball over less than 10 times against both Hawai'i and CSU Bakersfield. 

UC Davis has the 2nd fewest turnovers in the nation at 219 total.  

• UC Davis has come from behind to win twice this season when trailing with 10 minutes to go and both times have come over their last two games. 

Against CSU Bakersfield, five straight points by Caleb Fuller put UC Davis up 61-60 with 8:27 to go and the Aggies never trailed after that. 

• Prior to Feb. 19 against CSU Bakersfield, UC Davis had not shot over 80 percent from the free throw line since Jan. 8 against UC San Diego when they went 17-20. They also hadn't made more than 14 free throws in a game since that day. 

After going 29-35 against the Roadrunners, the last time UC Davis made 29 or more free throws was Jan. 28, 2017 when it went 35-46 against UC Irvine.

CAREER WATCH LISTS
Manjon is within striking distance of a career milestone in his third NCAA season. 

At 952 points, Manjon needs 48 more to reach 1,000 career points. Manjon's career-high point total for a single season came in 2019-20 when he scored 388 points behind Aggie great Joe Mooney's 419. 

23 Aggies have reached the 1,000 point milestone with the last being Siler Scheider scoring 1,440 from 2015-19. Should Manjon reach that mark this season, he would be one of just five Aggies to score 1,000 points or more in their first three seasons.