Rice Baseball This Week, March 9-15
Tuesday – UH 13, Rice 1 Box l Recap: Rice l UH l Roost
Friday (3 pm CT) – vs. SMC, Phoenix Game Notes: Rice l SMC l LS l Radio
Probables: RHP T Wiggins (0-0, 2.13) and RHP J Damozonio (2-1, 2.25)
Friday (8 pm CT) – vs. GCU, Phoenix Game Notes: Rice l GCU l LS l Radio
Probables: LHP Anthony Diaz (2-1, 6.92) and RHP Garrett Ahern (1-2, 4.91)
Saturday (7 pm CT) – Phoenix: Rice Alumni Meetup & Baseball Game
Saturday (8 pm CT) – vs. GCU, Phoenix Game Notes: Rice l GCU l LS l Radio
Probables: RHP Ryland Urbanczyk (0-1, 2.63) vs. LHP Chase Frey (0-3, 6.91)
Sunday (1 pm CT) – vs. SMC, Phoenix Game Notes: Rice l SMC l LS l Radio
Probables: TBA and LHP Jake Hilton (3-0, 2.12)
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Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, March 9-15
Monday-Wednesday – NCAA Zone D Diving Championships, College Station
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
Friday (6 pm CT) – #1 Rice vs. #5 UNT, American W Basketball Championship
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 (6:30 pm CT) – Friends of Fondren Library Gala
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
Bryan Blair:
Bryan Blair Named Syracuse Director of Athletics (Syracuse Athletics)
Rice Swimming:
Owls Close Day One of NIC (Rice Owls)
Rice M Tennis:
Owls Travel to Florida to Face FAU, USF (Rice Owls)
Other News
Moody Business Scholars Program:
Rice Business launches program to accelerate undergraduate career paths (Rice News)
Max Scholl '27:
Rice junior builds community through critical thinking (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
In 2017, Rice head coach Jim Bevan was inducted into the Rice Athletics Hall of Fame and into his alma mater’s Hall of Fame (Adams State). Earlier this week, he announced his retirement after four decades at Rice. Read more. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Melinda Clark, Ann Bixby, Andy Williams, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Bryan Guido Hassin, James Walker, John Montana, Ted Richard, Ann Eldredge, Kirkwood Johnston, Arthur Rogers, Steve Gilliland, Ben Mayberry, Bob Toone, Richard Avant, Walt Greenberg, Scott Wise, Paul Reese, Clarke Anderson, Chris Kohnhorst, Betty Bixby, Boyd Harrison, Nancy Bailey, Guy Rollins, Sallie Schwall, Vicki Bretthauer, Nancy Burch, Greg Williams, Bob Reinhold, Richard Zansitis, Martha Proctor Gano, Brian Lattimer and Mike Ross!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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