Rice Baseball This Week, March 2-8
Wednesday – Rice 4, Lamar 1 Box l Recap: Rice l Lamar l Roost
Friday (6:05 pm CT) – at ACU Game Notes: Rice l ACU l LS l Radio l TV: ESPN+
Probables: TBA and TBA
Saturday (3:05 pm CT) – at ACU Game Notes: Rice l ACU l LS l Radio
Probables: TBA and TBA
Sunday (1:05 pm CT) – at ACU Game Notes: Rice l ACU l LS l Radio
Probables: TBA and TBA
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Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, March 2-8
Monday-Tuesday – M Golf at Cabo Collegiate
Monday-Tuesday – M Golf at Colin Montgomerie Invitational, Sugar Land
Monday (2 pm CT) – M Tennis vs. #8 Baylor
Tuesday (5:30 pm CT) – W Basketball at Charlotte TV: ESPN+
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – M Basketball at North Texas TV: ESPN+
Thursday (2:30 pm CT) – M Tennis vs. DePaul
Saturday (TBA) – M Tennis vs. UAB
Saturday (11 am CT) – W Tennis vs. Louisiana
Saturday (2 pm CT) – W Basketball vs. UTSA TV: ESPN+ l Alumni Day
Sunday (11 am CT) – W Tennis vs. Wichita State
Sunday (2 pm CT) – M Basketball at UTSA TV: ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, March 2-8
Monday (12 pm CT) – Vanzant Lecture: Dr Tai Montgomery
Monday (4:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: Karl Rove
Tuesday (12 pm CT) – Sociology Speaker Series: Dr Danya Lagos
Tuesday (12 pm CT) – HRC Conversation: How Do We Think the Future?
Tue (5:30 pm CT) – Doyle Arnold Lecture Series in Economics: Kenneth Rogoff
Tuesday (5:30 pm CT) – Moody Center: Pride Week Student Art Workshop
Wednesday – 24-Hour Challenge
Wednesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Maria Ross
Wednesday (4 pm CT) – CAAAS Speaker Series: Dr Samar Al-Bulushi
Wednesday (5:15 pm CT) – Baker Event: Public Film Screening: Inshallah a Boy
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Recent Alumni Run Club
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – LGBTQ+ In The Workplace: Alumni Career Panel
Thursday (11:30 am CT) – Boniuk Institute: Reading Religion Salon
Thursday (4 pm CT) – Transnational Asia Speaker Series: Fei Deng
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Baker Event: New CDC Immunization Guidelines
Friday (9 am CT) – Moody Center: Imaging After Photography Symposium
Friday (12 pm CT) – Anthropology Brown Bag Talk with Sarah Reynolds
Friday (7 pm CT) – Rice Cinema: Little, Big, and Far
Friday-Saturday – Rice Theatre: Sunday in the Park with George
Saturday (5 pm CT) – RUCAA l Pickleball Social
Saturday (7 pm CT) – Rice Cinema: Anselm
Sunday (2 pm CT) – Hoots and Hobbies: Building a Rodeo Owl
Shepherd School Events This Week, March 2-8
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
This week, Dave Campbell ranked Quinton Jackson no. 10 among the 10 best running backs in College Football for 2025 Rice Owls in the state of Texas.
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
Blaine Brown:
Yesterday, D1Baseball.com’s Kendall Rogers reported that Tennessee’s Blaine Brown is embroiled in a legal dispute with the South Main Collective. Read more.
Other Sports News
Rice M Basketball:
Rice Drops Heartbreaker at North Texas (Rice Owls)
Rice Drops Crucial Game at North Texas (The Roost)
Rice M Tennis:
Potential Storms Move up Ralph O'Connor Rice Invite (Rice Owls)
Rice W Golf:
Owls prepare for first season (Rice Owls)
Other News
Scott Powers:
Rice professor offers edge for your basketball bracket (Rice News)
EyeDar:
Roadside radar sensors could reduce blind spots (Rice News)
Baker Institute:
Report: Affordable Housing Projects Will Cost Harris County Entities Billions (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Question:
First, Mary Jane Kinnebrew and Steve Lukingbeal (2) also correctly answered Tuesday’s trivia question!
Name the couple – both Abilene Christian alums – with deep ties to Rice. He was a sociology professor at Rice for almost forty years and author of numerous books and magazine articles. In her thirty years at Rice, she was a student, teacher, editor, faculty wife, college master and administrator. One point for each. Email your answer(s) here.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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