RICE UPDATE
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, February 9-15
Monday-Tuesday – M Golf at Bentwater Incollegiate, Montgomery TX
Monday-Saturday – M Tennis at 25K PTT, GRBTC
Tuesday (8 pm CT) – W Basketball vs. North Texas TV: ESPNU
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – M Basketball vs. Florida Atlantic TV: ESPN+
Friday – W/M Track at Howie Ryan Invite, UH
Friday-Saturday – W/M Track at Tyson Invitational, Fayetteville AR
Friday ( 7 pm CT) – W Basketball vs. Wichita State TV: ESPN+
Saturday (1 pm CT) – M Basketball vs. East Carolina TV: ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, February 9-15
Monday – Shenzen l Chinese New Year Celebration
Monday (12 pm CT) – Vanzant Lecture: Dr Arjun Khakhar
Monday (12 pm CT) – SRUW l Seminar with Brielle Bryan
Tuesday (12 pm CT) – Sociology Speaker Series: Dr Irene Vega
Tuesday (7 pm CT) – RUCAA l Virtual Lecture: Sidney X Lu
Wednesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Lorraine K Lee
Wednesday (5 pm CT) – Philadelphia l Evening with Omar Syed
Wednesday (5:30 pm CT) – Online Cooking Class: Owlentine’s
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Rice Alumni February Virtual Book Club: Virginia Evans
Thursday (5 pm CT) – Boston l Evening with Omar Syed
Thursday (6:30 pm CT) – Hoots and Hobbies: Make Your Own Lotion Bar
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Shepherd School Events This Week, February 9-15
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Madison Joins Owls as Cornerbacks Coach (Rice Owls)
Rice Hires Tevin Madison as Corners Coach (The Roost)
Professional Baseball News
Player Moves:
Last month, Jon Duplantier signed a contract with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball. This will be his second season in Japan, after playing last season for the Hanshin Tigers. Read more.
College Baseball News
College Baseball:
Opening Weekend Guide (Baseball America)
Bracketology:
Field of 64 Projections: Preseason Edition (D1Baseball.com)
Other Sports News
Rice M Basketball:
Rice Drops Contest to East Carolina (Rice Owls)
Comeback comes up short for Rice against ECU (The Roost)
Rice Track:
Recap: Women l Men (Rice Owls)
Other News
Dr Beth Johnson (1966-2026):
On February 12, Dr Beth Johnson passed away after a twenty-three year battle with cancer. Born in Virginia, she earned a BA in Computer Sciences and Economics in 1988 from Rice where she met her future husband Preston Johnson II ’85. And, she earned a MD from Duke in 1996 and practiced medicine in Virginia, North Carolina and Iowa. Also, she was an accomplished pianist and violinist in her youth and music and the arts were lifelong passions for her. “Above all else, Beth loved being surrounded by family.” She is survived by, among others, Preston II (they were married for thirty-five years) and two sons, Preston III and Benjamin. Click here for the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Northwestern graduate Saul Bellow ‘37 won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1976, Humboldt’s Gift), the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature and the National Medal of Arts. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
This weekend, the Rice baseball team hosts the Wildcats in a three-game set at Reckling Park.
Way to go, Ted Richard, Ann Bixby, John Montana, Anne Eldredge, Bob Toone, Andy Williams, Arthur Rogers, Clarke Anderson, Russell Henderson, Art Gottschalk, Chris Kohnhorst, Guy Rollins, Ty Buthod, Greg Williams, Betty Bixby, Paul Reese, Kirwin Drouet, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Susan Zimmerman, Jeff Ross, Martha Proctor Gano, Melinda Clark, Boyd Harrison, Dan Hyde, Peter Fasullo, Sallie Schwall, Richard Zansitis, Mike Ross, James Walker, Larry Nettles and Brian Lattimer!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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