Rice Baseball This Week, March 9-15
Tuesday – UH 13, Rice 1 Box l Recap: Rice l UH l Roost
Friday – Rice 6, SMC 5 Box l Recap: Rice l SMC
Friday – Rice 16, GCU 5 Box l Recap: Rice l GCU
Saturday (7 pm CT) – Phoenix: Rice Alumni Meetup & Baseball Game
Saturday (8 pm CT) – vs. GCU, Phoenix Game Notes: Rice l GCU l LS l Radio
Probables: RHP Ryland Urbanczyk (0-1, 2.63) vs. LHP Chase Frey (0-3, 6.91)
Sunday (1 pm CT) – vs. SMC, Phoenix Game Notes: Rice l SMC l LS l Radio
Probables: TBA and LHP Jake Hilton (3-0, 2.12)
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Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, March 9-15
Monday-Wednesday – NCAA Zone D Diving Championships, College Station
Thursday-Saturday – CSCAA National Invitational, Ocala FL
Friday-Saturday – NCAA W/M Indoor Track Championships, Fayetteville
Friday (4 pm CT) – M Tennis at FAU
Saturday (10 am CT) – W Tennis vs. #38 Charlotte, New Orleans
Saturday (6:20 pm CT) – W Basketball Send-Off, Sheraton Birmingham Hotel
Saturday (6:40 pm CT) – Pre-Match Social, Sheraton Birmingham Hotel Register
Saturday (8:30 pm CT) – W Basketball Houston Watch Party, Jay-Bar-M Barbecue
Sat (8:30 pm CT) – #1 Rice vs. #6 UTSA, American W Basketball Championship
Sunday (11 AM CT) – W Tennis at Tulane
Sunday (12:30 pm CT) – M Tennis at South Florida
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, March 9-15
Monday – Boniuk Institute: RPLC
Monday (12 pm CT) – Vanzant Lecture: Dr Mollie Simonis
Monday (12 pm CT) – Moody Center: Leslie Hewitt
Monday (12 pm CT) – SHRUW & REA Seminar with Luay Nakhleh
Monday (5 pm CT) – DFW l Medical Networking Social
Monday (5:30 pm CT) – Katherine Tsanoff Brown Lecture Series: William Wallace
Tuesday (12 pm CT) – Sociology Speaker Series: Dr Forrest Stuart
Tuesday (6:45 pm CT) – Houston l Rice Night at the Rodeo
Wednesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Reclaiming Your Financial Future
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Rice Alumni M*arch Virtual Book Club: Juliet Nicolson
Thursday (11:30 am CT) – Boniuk Institute: Reading Religion Salon
Thursday (12:30 pm CT) – CELAS: Goya Boycott
Thursday (4 pm CT) – Women’s History Month Lecture with Antoinette Burton
Thursday (7:30 pm CT) – DeLange Conference Keynote Address: David Eagleman
Friday (11:30 am CT) – Baker Event: Arati Prabhaka
Friday (4 pm CT) – Department of Philosophy Lecture: Dana Kay Nelkin
Friday (6:30 pm CT) – Friends of Fondren Library Gala
Friday (7 pm CT) – Rice Cinema: The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire
Friday (7 pm CT) – DeLange Conference “Free Rein”
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Shepherd School Events This Week, March 9-15
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
CJ Witten:
This week, Cooper Witten, CJ’s brother, committed to play for Oklahoma. Two months ago, their father Jason Witten joined the program as tight ends coach.
Professional Baseball News
Benjamin Rosengard:
One-year Rice baseball letterman Benjamin Rosengard (2002) is on the Team Israel roster for the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
The NCAA has started posting RPI rankings here. Through Sunday (March 8), Rice’s RPI ranking was 91.
Other Sports News
Rice Swimming:
Owls Move Into Third at NIC (Rice Owls)
Rice M Tennis:
Rice Tops FAU 4-0 (Rice Owls)
Rice W Tennis:
Owls Set for Pair of Conference Matches in New Orleans (Rice Owls)
Other News
Ryan Levy '97:
Nice Winery has been named Top All-Around Winery for the third consecutive year at the 2026 HLSR International Wine Competition. The winery is run by Ryan Levy ’97 and Ian Eastveld. Read more.
Omid Veiseh:
Rice engineer awarded $2.2 million Gates Foundation grant (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
In 2017, Rice head coach Jim Bevan was inducted into the Rice Athletics Hall of Fame and into his alma mater’s Hall of Fame (Adams State). Earlier this week, he announced his retirement after four decades at Rice. Read more. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Melinda Clark, Ann Bixby, Andy Williams, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Bryan Guido Hassin, James Walker, John Montana, Ted Richard, Ann Eldredge, Kirkwood Johnston, Arthur Rogers, Steve Gilliland, Ben Mayberry, Bob Toone, Richard Avant, Walt Greenberg, Scott Wise, Paul Reese, Clarke Anderson, Chris Kohnhorst, Betty Bixby, Boyd Harrison, Nancy Bailey, Guy Rollins, Sallie Schwall, Vicki Bretthauer, Nancy Burch, Greg Williams, Bob Reinhold, Richard Zansitis, Martha Proctor Gano, Brian Lattimer and Mike Ross!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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