RICE UPDATE

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series

Football News

Owls in NFL:
Week 9 Roundup (The Roost)

Rice Football:
Tulane presser quotes and depth chart (The Roost)

Professional Baseball News

Playoff Baseball:
Last night, the Brewers defeated the Dodgers, 6-4, to sweep the best-of-seven NL Championship Series, 4-0.  Danny Lehmann is the Bench Coach for the Dodgers.

College Baseball News

Coach David Pierce (Thanks, Teddy Herce!):
Last week, Coach David Pierce was inducted into the Wharton County Junior College Athletic Hall of Fame.  He played baseball at WCJC in 1982 and 1983.  Read more.

Other News

FED Dallas Event with DesRoches brothers:
Rice president and AT&T CFO discuss family, leadership, and future of AI (Rice News)

Campus Wide Book Swap:
Rice book swap gives books a second life (Rice News)

The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday.  You can check it out here.

Rice Trivia

Trivia Answer:
Tanner Gardner, who held key positions in the Rice Athletics Department from 2014 to 2024, was inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019.  His sport was wrestling.  On Monday night, Stanford M Basketball defeated Rice, 91-73, in Palo Alto.  

Tanner left Rice to become Director of Athletics at Pepperdine.  On Sunday, November 22, Rice W Basketball hosts Pepperdine at Tudor Fieldhouse.  (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst, Greg Mathews and Mike Ross!) 

Way to go, Bev Schorre (2), Bryant Wilkinson (2), Ann Bixby (2), Bob Toone (2), Art Gottschalk (2), Arthur Rogers (2), Kirkwood Johnston (2), John Montana (2), Ted Richard (2), Mary Jane Kinnebrew (2), Dan Hyde (2), Clarke Anderson (2), Russell Henderson (2), Randy Schaffer (2), Robert Taylor (2), Steve Gilliland, Guy Rollins, Martha Proctor Gano (2), Cary Gray (2), Anne Eldredge (2), Paul Reese (2), Walt Grenberg (2), Steve Lukingbeal (2), Nancy Bailey, Betty Bixby (2), Chris Kohnhorst (2), Greg Mathews (2), Larry Nettles, Nancy Burch (2), Boyd Harrison (2), James Walker (2), Michelle Hicks (2), Susan Zimmerman (2), Richard Zansistis (2), Brian Lattimer (2), Melinda Clark (2), Mike Ross (2) and Josh Schaffer (2)! 

This question concludes this year’s trivia contest.  Next week, I will post the final results.
 

Rice Update by Alan Shelby
A condensed version of the Update is available by email
Corrections, comments and updates welcome

Overall: 35-24 (AC: 16-11)

Date  Opponent  Time
2/13 Northwestern (DH1) W, 7-6
2/13 Northwestern (DH2) W, 3-2
2/15 Northwestern L, 17-6
2/17  Louisiana L, 3-0
2/18  Purdue W, 5-2
2/20 USC L, 5-0
2/21 USC L, 4-1
2/22 USC L, 4-2
2/24 HCU L, 11-8
2/27 Harvard W, 11-7
2/28 Harvard W, 2-1
3/01 Harvard W, 9-0
3/04 Lamar W, 4-1
3/06 Abilene Christian W, 5-4
3/07 Abilene Christian W, 8-6
3/08 Abilene Christian L, 4-1
3/10 Houston L, 13-1
3/13 Saint Mary's W, 6-5
3/13 Grand Canyon W, 16-5
3/14 Grand Canyon W, 13-2
3/15 Saint Mary's L, 11-8
3/17 UTRGV W, 7-3
3/20 USF W, 5-4
3/21 USF L, 2-0
3/22 USF L, 7-2
3/25 HCU W, 10-7
3/27 FL Atlantic L, 6-2
3/28 FL Atlantic W, 5-2
3/29 FL Atlantic W, 8-1
3/31 UTRGV W, 6-4
4/02 UTSA W, 3-2
4/03 UTSA L, 8-0
4/04 UTSA L, 13-0
4/07 Texas A&M-CC W, 18-4
4/10 Charlotte W, 7-5
4/11 Charlotte W, 6-2
4/12 Charlotte W, 3-2
4/15 Sam Houston W, 5-3
4/17 Memphis L, 4-1
4/18 Memphis L, 10-6
4/19 Memphis L, 6-5
4/21 Houston L, 4-3
4/24 Wichita St L, 5-1
4/25 Wichita St W, 3-2
4/26 Wichita St L, 13-3
4/28 Lamar W, 6-5
5/02 UAB (DH1) W, 16-9
5/02 UAB (DH2) W, 12-2
5/03 UAB W, 10-3
5/08 East Carolina W, 10-5
5/09 East Carolina W, 5-3
5/10 East Carolina L, 3-0
5/12 Houston L, 14-3
5/14 Tulane W, 12-0
5/15 Tulane W, 10-6
5/16 Tulane W, 6-5
     
5/19-24 AC Championship
5/19    
5/20    
5/21 Wichita St W, 5-4
5/22 East Carolina L, 4-3
5/22 UAB L, 9-6
5/23    
5/24    
     
5/29-6/1 Regionals  
     
6/5-8 Super Regionals  
     
6/12-22 College World Series