Rice Baseball This Week, June 9-15
Friday (June 13) – Monday (June 23) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Friday, January 23, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, January 19-25
Monday (11 am CT) – W Tennis vs. FAU
Tuesday (6:30 pm CT) – W Basketball at Tulsa TV: ESPN+
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – M Basketball vs. Temple TV: ESPN+
Friday-Saturday – W/M Track at Ted Nelson Invite, College Station
Friday-Saturday – M Tennis at ITA Kickoff Weekend, Palo Alto, CA
Friday-Saturday – W Tennis at ITA Kickoff Weekend, Charlottesville, VA
Saturday (1 pm CT) – W Basketball vs. Tulane TV: ESPN+
Saturday (3:30 pm CT) – M Basketball vs. Tulsa TV: ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, January 19-25
Monday – Martin Luther King Jr Day
Tuesday (12 pm CT) – Sociology Speaker Series: Dr Rene Almeling
Tuesday (4 pm CT) – World Logic Day Lecture: Moshe Vardi
Tuesday (5 pm CT) – Rice360 Institute Seminar Series: Kara Palamountain
Wednesday (5 pm CT) – Dept of Religion: Andras Kraft
Wed (5:30 pm CT) – Online New Zealand Cooking Class with Scott Solomon
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Venezuela & Latin America at a Crossroads
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Recent Alumni Run Club
Thursday (1 pm CT) – Rice Global and Intl Seminar Series: Benjamin Hein
Thursday (1 pm CT) – Medical Humanities Lecture: Elizabeth Reis
Thursday (6 pm CT) – 2025-26 Visiting Artisit Lecture Series: Will Rawls
Thursday (6 pm CT) – MEML@Rice Lecture Series: Chris Hyams
Friday (12 pm CT) – Rice Anthropology Brown Bag Talk with Anne Allison
Fri (6 pm CT) – Moody Center: Opening Reception for Imaging after Photography
Shepherd School Events This Week, January 19-25
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Transfer Portal:
RB Daelen Alexander has reportedly committed to Coastal Carolina out of the transfer portal.
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
Baseball America Preseason Poll:
In its preseason Top 25 poll released yesterday, top ranked by Baseball America were UCLA (#1), LSU (#2), Mississippi State (#3), Georgia Tech (#4) and Auburn (#5).
Other News
Lucia Noto '29:
Rice freshman's nonprofit tackles child literacy (Rice News)
Hip-Hop:
Hip-Hop Finds a Home in the Classroom at Rice (Rice News)
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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Corrections, comments and updates welcome