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Friday (June 13) – Monday (June 23) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, February 2-8
Monday (1 pm CT) – M Tennis at LSU
Tuesday (6:30 pm CT) – W Basketball at Tulsa TV: ESPN+
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – M Basketball vs. North Texas TV: ESPN+
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Spring Sports Preview & Social Register
Friday-Saturday – Swimming at First Chance Meet, Houston
Friday-Saturday – W/M Track at Charlie Thomas Invite, College Station
Friday ( 6 pm CT) – W Tennis at Baylor
Saturday (12 pm CT) – W Tennis vs. Washington, Waco
Saturday (1 pm CT) – W Basketball at Memphis TV: ESPN+
Sunday (2 pm CT) – M Basketball at UAB TV: ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, February 2-8
Monday (12 pm CT) – Vanzant Lecture: Dr David A Hutchins
Monday (12 pm CT) – SRUW l Seminar with John Lawrence
Tuesday – Taipei l Holliday Reception
Tuesday (6 pm CT) – The Black Experience at Rice
Wednesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – CAAAS Speaker Series: Dr Glen A Harris
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Recent Alumni Run Club
Thursday – Beijing l Chinese New Year Celebration
Thursday (5 pm CT) – Baker Event: Press Freedom in Mexico
Thursday (7 pm CT) – Kazimi Lecture in Shi’i Studies: Juan Cole
Friday-Saturday – The World at Play: The Beautiful Game in 2026
Friday (12 pm CT) – Rice Anthropology Brown Bag Talk with Townsend Middleton
Saturday – Shanghai l Chinese New Year Celebration
Saturday (11 am CT) – DC l Volun-CHEERS
Shepherd School Events This Week, February 2-8
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Owls Add Eight to 2026 Recruiting Class (Rice Owls)
Owls Remake 2026 Roster in Abell's Vision (The Roost)
Inside Rice football's transfer portal philosophy (The Rice Thresher)
Professional Baseball News
Tristan Gray:
On November 18, 2025, Tampa Bay traded Tristan Gray to Boston. Yesterday, Boston traded him to Minnesota. Read more.
College Baseball News
Cowboy Collegiate League:
Galveston is getting a new collegiate baseball team this summer (Chron.com)
Other Sports News
Rice W Basketball:
Rice Tops Baylor in Waco (Rice Owls)
Houston First Chance Meet:
Day One Recap (Rice Owls)
Rice W Basketball:
Rice to Take on Memphis This Afternoon (Rice Owls)
Hailey Awards wins leadership award (The Rice Thresher)
W Basketball NCAA Tournament:
Yesterday, the Athletic projected Rice to be a 12 seed and to play in East Lansing against 5 seed Kentucky in the opening round. Read more.
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 2 was suspended yesterday due to darkness, Mitchell Meissner was T88 at even par through 12 at the Astara Golf Championship in Bogota on the Korn Ferry Tour. Projected cut line is -2. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Shepherd School:
Latitude 49 to perform free guest artist recital (Rice News)
Karis Lai '26:
Inside a clock shop, a Rice senior found her big question (Rice News)
Will Rice College:
Will Rice College to add 65 beds (The Rice Thresher)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Coach Todd Graham was the first Rice head football coach to reach a bowl game in his initial season, taking the Owls to the New Orleans Bowl in 2006. “Then he left.”
Way to go, Bev Schorre (3), Bryant Wilkinson (3), Nancy Bailey (2), Tre Fischer (2), Andy Williams (3), Mary Jane Kinnebrew (2), Art Gottschalk (3), Paul Reese (3), Vicki Bretthauer (2), Mike Ross (3), John Montana (3), Bob Toone (3), Ann Bixby (3), Grungy (3), Anne Eldredge (3), Steve Gilliland (3), Randy Schaffer (2), Dan Hyde (3), Arthur Rogers (3), Russell Henderson (3), Josh Schaffer (3), Guy Rollins (3), Ty Buthod (3), Jeff Ross (3), Joe Quoyeser (2), David Gano (2), Ben Mayberry (3), Betty Bixby (3), Chris Kohnhorst (3), Bill Eiland, Martha Proctor Gano (3), Melinda Clark (3), James Walker (3), Richard Zansitis (3), Nancy Burch (3), Sallie Schwall (3), Ted Richard (3), Greg Williams (3), Walt Greenberg (2), Bob Reinhold (3), Larry Nettles (2), Kirwin Drouet (3), Jimmy Walts (3), David Ownby (3), Brian Lattimer! and Brian Ford (3)!
Final trivia leaderboards tomorrow.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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