RICE UPDATE

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, August 3-9

Thursday (7 pm CT) – Soccer vs. UH (EXH)

Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, August 3-9

Until August 29 – Moody Center: Masako Miki: Shapeshifters, Sprites, and Spirits
Wednesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Jane Chen
Saturday (1 pm CT) – Austin l Welcome to the NeighborHOOT 
Sunday (1 pm CT) – Seattle l Welcome to the NeighborHOOT
Sunday (3 pm – Denver l New Student Social 

Shepherd School Events This Week, August 3-9

A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.

Baseball This Week, June 8-14

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

Football News

August 6, 2026

Rice Football:
Episode 234: 2026 Rice Opponent Preview: Tulsa (The Roost)

Professional Baseball News

August 8, 2026

Player Moves:
Yesterday, the Minnesota Twins optioned Tristan Gray to AAA St Paul.

Owls in MLB:
Update: August 5 (The Roost)

MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Garrett Stratton (1-4, 2.25) pitched a scoreless inning in relief for AA Binghamton and Justin Long (2-3, 8.24) allowed 3 earned runs in .1 inning in relief for Hi-A Rome.

Complete Owls stats are here.

College Baseball News

August 6, 2026

Rice Baseball:
Per the D1Baseball Transfer Tracker (subscriber content), P Grant Nicholson is transferring from Wake Forest to Rice.

Other Sports News

August 8, 2026

Rice Basketball:
2026 American Conference Opponents: Women l Men (Rice Owls)

Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 2 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was T52 at -3 and made the cut at the Pinnacle Bank Championship in Omaha on the Korn Ferry Tour.  Leaderboard here. 

Other News

August 8, 2026

Chex Award:
Rice and TMC partners secure climate health consortium grant (Rice News)

RISE:
RISE prepares incoming Rice students for life beyond classroom (Rice News)

Rice Trivia

August 7, 2026

Trivia Answer:
In fact, there are 2 four-year Rice letterwinners who are 2026 Distinguished Owl Club Awards honorees, namely women’s tennis letter winner Elle Lewis Anderson (1997-98-99-2000) and men’s basketball letter winner Willis Wilson (1979-80-81-82).  “An Evening for Rice’s Honour” will take place Wednesday, September 30 at the River Oaks Country Club.  Read more and/or register here.  (Thanks, Clarke Anderson, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)

Way to go, Ted Richard, Nancy Bailey, Ann Bixby, Anne Eldredge, Betty Bixby, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Walt Greenberg, Andy Williams, Kirkwood Johnston, John Montana, Arthur Rogers, Paul Reese, Gloria Tarpley, Art Gottschalk, Chris Kohnhorst, Melinda Clark, Greg Williams, Clarke Anderson, James Walker, Larry Nettles, Bob Toone and Mike Ross!

Next trivia question next Tuesday!

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

2026 Schedule and Results

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