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Docuseries follows Sac State’s first season under Mike Bibby. See the trailer

The college basketball season will be long completed by May, but Sacramento State’s first season under coach Mike Bibby will play out on the TV screen in a six-episode documentary series that chronicled the program’s journey through an interesting, encouraging and frustrating season rife with injuries, close losses at home and a winless road record.

Overtime and Omaha Productions teamed with the men’s team called “Fear Nothing: Sac State” for the project with the first episode airing May 1 on Roku, followed by a new episode each Friday. The series will also stream on Overtime’s YouTube channel.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Peyton Manning, co-founder of Omaha Productions said in a news release: “We appreciate the partnership with Sacramento State President Luke Wood and Athletics Director Mark Orr. Overtime has a strong track record of working with athletes, and we’re excited to partner with them to tell Sacramento State’s story.”

The series provides an inside peek at a Hornets program with access to practices, games, the locker room, road trips, campus life, off-the-court life and more, including a ride-along with players in their cars. The Hornets had 15 new players this season and an entire new coaching staff, headed by Bibby, the one-time Sacramento Kings star guard whose fiercest rival in the NBA was the Los Angeles Lakers and All-Star center Shaquille O’Neal, now the Hornets basketball general manager.

“I never thought Shaq and I would become friends and that this would happen, but I still hate the Lakers,” Bibby said. “No we work together.”

The series will spotlight players such as O’Neal’s youngest son, Shaqir O’Neal, who was Bibby’s first recruit and signing with the Hornets. O’Neal talks about the joys and pressure of being the son of an all-time great. The series also follows Hornets guard Mikey Williams, a prep star in San Diego who overcame legal issues and previous college stops before landing at Sac State, where he emerged as a fan favorite.

“Overtime has a strong track record of working with athletes, and we’re excited to partner with them to tell Sacramento State’s story,” Overtime CEO and co-founder Dan Porter said in the news release.

The series will show Sac State’s sparkling new Pavilion inside the Well, which regularly overflowed with crowds of 3,000 in setting program attendance records. The school founded its basketball program in 1948.

Sac State went 10-21 overall in the 2025-26 season, which concluded last weekend with a first-round loss in the Big Sky Conference tournament to Idaho, which went on to win the conference tourney and earn an automatic bid to NCAA March Madness. The Hornets went 10-4 on their home court and 0-17 off it (a 0-16 road record plus the loss to Idaho that goes in the books as a neutral site, though it took place in Boise, Idaho).

Sac State basketball is exiting the Big Sky Conference next season, as most of the university sports programs will join the Big West, save for its football team, which has joined the FBS-level Mid-American Conference.

“Sacramento has always had heart, and Sac State basketball represents that grit and that chip on the shoulder,” Bibby said in the release. “Giving these young men a platform to show their work ethic, their brotherhood, and what it means to wear green and gold — that’s powerful. I’m proud to see the Hornets getting this kind of spotlight.”

This story was originally published March 13, 2026 at 11:17 AM.

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Joe Davidson
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Joe Davidson has covered sports for The Sacramento Bee since 1989: preps, colleges, Kings and features. He was in early 2024 named the National Sports Media Association Sports Writer of the Year for California and he was in the fall of 2024 inducted into the California High School Football Hall of Fame. He is a 14-time award winner from the California Prep Sports Writer Association. In 2021, he was honored with the CIF Distinguished Service award. He is a member of the California Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Davidson participated in football and track in Oregon.
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