Rice Baseball This Week, March 9-15
Tuesday – UH 13, Rice 1 Box l Recap: Rice l UH l Roost
Friday (2 pm CT) – vs. SMC, Phoenix Game Notes: Rice l SMC l LS l Radio
Probables: TBA and TBA
Friday (7 pm CT) – vs. GCU, Phoenix Game Notes: Rice l GCU l LS l Radio
Probables: TBA and TBA
Saturday (7 pm CT) – Phoenix: Rice Alumni Meetup & Baseball Game
Saturday (7 pm CT) – vs. GCU, Phoenix Game Notes: Rice l GCU l LS l Radio
Probables: TBA and TBA
Sunday (1 pm CT) – vs. SMC, Phoenix Game Notes: Rice l SMC l LS l Radio
Probables: TBA and TBA
RICE UPDATE
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, March 9-15
Monday-Wednesday – NCAA Zone D Diving Championships, College Station
Tuesday-Saturday – American W Basketball Championship, Birmingham
Thursday-Saturday – CSCAA National Invitational, Ocala FL
Friday-Saturday – NCAA W/M Indoor Track Championships, Fayetteville
Friday (3:50 pm CT) – W Basketball Send-Off, Sheraton Birmingham Hotel
Friday (4 pm CT) – M Tennis at FAU
Friday (4:15 pm CT) – Pre-Match Social, Sheraton Birmingham Hotel Register
Friday (6 pm CT) – W Basketball Houston Watch Party, Jay-Bar-M Barbecue
Saturday (10 am CT) – W Tennis vs. Charlotte, New Orleans
Sunday (11 AM CT) – W Tennis at Tulane
Sunday (12:30 pm CT) – M Tennis at South Florida
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, March 9-15
Monday – Boniuk Institute: RPLC
Monday (12 pm CT) – Vanzant Lecture: Dr Mollie Simonis
Monday (12 pm CT) – Moody Center: Leslie Hewitt
Monday (12 pm CT) – SHRUW & REA Seminar with Luay Nakhleh
Monday (5 pm CT) – DFW l Medical Networking Social
Monday (5:30 pm CT) – Katherine Tsanoff Brown Lecture Series: William Wallace
Tuesday (12 pm CT) – Sociology Speaker Series: Dr Forrest Stuart
Tuesday (6:45 pm CT) – Houston l Rice Night at the Rodeo
Wednesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Reclaiming Your Financial Future
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Rice Alumni March Virtual Book Club: Juliet Nicolson
Thursday (11:30 am CT) – Boniuk Institute: Reading Religion Salon
Thursday (12:30 pm CT) – CELAS: Goya Boycott
Thursday (4 pm CT) – Women’s History Month Lecture with Antoinette Burton
Thursday (7:30 pm CT) – DeLange Conference Keynote Address: David Eagleman
Friday (11:30 am CT) – Baker Event: Arati Prabhaka
Friday (4 pm CT) – Department of Philosophy Lecture: Dana Kay Nelkin
Friday (7 pm CT) – Rice Cinema: The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire
Friday (7 pm CT) – DeLange Conference “Free Rein”
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Shepherd School Events This Week, March 9-15
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
CJ Witten:
This week, Cooper Witten, CJ’s brother, committed to play for Oklahoma. Two months ago, their father Jason Witten joined the program as tight ends coach.
Professional Baseball News
Benjamin Rosengard:
One-year Rice baseball letterman Benjamin Rosengard (2002) is on the Team Israel roster for the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
The NCAA has started posting RPI rankings here. Through Sunday (March 8), Rice’s RPI ranking was 91.
Other Sports News
Rice Athletics:
Rice Honors 2026 Scholar-Athletes, Julie Griswold (Rice Owls)
Rice Swimming:
Robson and Harned Close Day One of NCAA Diving Zones (Rice Owls)
Other News
Taft Architects:
Celebrating Fifty Years (Rice News)
Staff Spotlight:
Wendy Herrera (Rice News)
The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday. You can check it out here!
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Norman Hackerman served as president of the University of Texas at Austin from 1967-70 and then president of Rice from 1970-1985. (Thanks, Art Gottschalk, Scott Hochberg, Chris Kohnhorst, Mike Ross and Boyd Harrison!)
Way to go, Andy Williams, Charley Landgraf, Art Gottschalk, John Montana, Ann Bixby, Richard Avant, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Ty Buthod, James Walker, Elizabeth Gillis, Bob Toone, Jimmy Walts, Joe Quoyeser, John Cabaniss, Dan Hyde, Scott Hochberg, Scott Wise, Jimmy Disch, Anne Eldredge, Harvin Moore, Randy Schaffer, Arthur Rogers, Richard Zansitis, Kim Koehn, Lynda Crist, Steve Lukingbeal, Kirwin Drouet, Paul Reese, Walt Greenberg, Jeff Ross, Chris Kohnhorst, Clarke Anderson, Betty Bixby, Melinda Clark, Larry Nettles, Steve Brown, Guy Rollins, Nancy Burch, Bob Clarke, Ben Mayberry, Buddy Herz, Wes Griggs, Nancy Bailey, Martha Proctor Gano, Russ Coleman, Greg Williams, Phil Garon, Boyd Harrison, Mike Ross, Brian Lattimer, Vicki Bretthauer, Shirley Grunert, Sallie Schwall, Jim Tucker and Ted Richard!
Next trivia question tomorrow!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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