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Friday (June 13) – Monday (June 23) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Friday, November 21, 2025
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, November 17-23
Monday (7:30 pm CT) – M Basketball at #20 Tennessee TV: SECN
Tuesday-Sunday – NCAA W Tennis Individual Championship, Orlando
Tuesday-Sunday – NCAA M Tennis Doubles Championship, Orlando
Wednesday-Friday – Swimming at Phill Hansel Invitational, Houston
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – W Basketball at Princeton
Thursday (7 pm CT) – M Basketball vs. Tarleton State TV: ESPN+
Friday (10 am CT) – #1 Rice vs. #8 UTSA, American Volleyball Championship, Tampa TV: ESPN+
Sat (6:30 pm CT) – Football vs. #22 UNT Radio l TV: ESPNU l GN: Rice l UNT
Sunday (2 pm CT) – W Basketball vs. UIW TV: ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, November 17-23
Until December 20 – Moody Center: Bio Morphe
Tuesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Neurodivergence and Burnout
Tuesday (5:30 pm CT) – Owlsgiving Online Cooking Class
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Recent Alumni Run Club
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Brains in a Bar with Jacqueline Couti
Thursday (6 pm CT) – REA l DFW Social
Thursday (6:30 pm CT) – RSI Frontiers Lecture Series: John Scott
Friday (12 pm CT) – Hudspeth Lecture Series: Steve Monroe
Shepherd School Events This Week, November 17-23
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Rice offering students free beer and food at UNT game (Houston Chronicle)
Professional Baseball News
Danny Lehmann:
Last night, Los Angeles defeated Toronto, 5-4, in Game 7 to win the 2025 World Series. The Dodgers become the first MLB team to win back-to-back titles since the Yankees did it between 1998 and 2000. Danny Lehmann is the Bench Coach for the Dodgers.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Owls Add Six for 2027 (Rice Owls)
Other Sports News
Rice M Basketball:
Anderson's 1000th Career Point Not Enough as Rice Loses (Rice Owls)
Rice Falters Late Against Tarleton State (The Roost)
Phill Hansel Invitational:
Day Two Recap (Rice Owls)
Other News
Gateway Project:
Rice Selects Nations Group to Remake Rice Stadium (Houston Chronicle)
A New Era in Brain Research:
Rice and Paris Brain Institute form transatlantic partnership (Rice News)
Leanne Burnett (1959-2025):
On November 4, Leanne Burnett MD peacefully passed away. A native Houstonian, she earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rice in 1982 and a MD from Baylor College of Medicine. She practiced as a neurologist for most of her career in the Clear Lake community and she was active in the Houston Area Parkinson Society. Also, she was a lifelong practitioner of colored-pencil drawing and she enjoyed baking and reading fiction. Finally, together with her late husband John Halter, PhD ’89, they raised two children. Click here for the Chronicle obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Edgard Odell Lovett, Rice’s first president, was a Princeton professor. George Rupp, Rice’s fifth president, earned an AB in English at Princeton in 1964. On Wednesday night, the Tigers W Basketball team defeated the Owls, 69-56, at Jadwin Gymnasium. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Bev Schorre (2), Bryant Wilkinson (2), Bob Toone (2), Ted Richard (2), Andy Williams (2), Ann Bixby (2), John Montana (2), Vicki Bretthauer, Richard Avant (2), Anne Eldredge (2), Arthur Rogers (2), Jeff Ross (2), Elizabeth Gillis, Mary Jane Kinnebrew, Scott Wise (2), Guy Rollins (2), Josh Schaffer (2), Walt Greenberg, Art Gottschalk (2), Betty Bixby (2), Ben Mayberry, David Ownby (2), Ty Buthod (2), Paul Reese (2), Dan Hyde (2), David Gano (2), Greg Williams (2), Mike Ross (2), Larry Nettles, Boyd Harrison (2), Nancy Burch (2), Martha Proctor Gano (2), Susan Zimmerman (2), Tania Min, Bob Reinhold (2), Melinda Clark (2), James Walker (2), Brian Lattimer (2), Richard Zansitis (2) and Sallie Schwall (2)!
Trivia Leaderboards tomorrow and next trivia question Tuesday, December 2!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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