Rice Baseball This Week, February 9-15
Friday (6:35 pm CT) – vs. Northwestern GN: Rice l NU l LS l Radio l TV: ESPN+
Probables: TBA and TBA
Saturday (4:05 pm CT) – vs. Northwestern GN: Rice l NU l LS l Radio l TV: ESPN+
Probables: TBA and TBA
Sunday (1:05 pm CT) – vs. Northwestern GN: Rice l NU l LS l Radio l TV: ESPN+
Probables: TBA and TBA
RICE UPDATE
Tuesday, February 10, 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 (11 am CT) – W Tennis vs. UTSA
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
Super Bowl:
On Sunday, Cadillac ran an ad during the Super Bowl to introduce its Formula 1 racing car. The audio includes part of JFK’s 1962 speech at Rice Stadium. Watch here.
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
The NCBWA Preseason Top 25 Poll:
In its preseason Top 25 poll released on Tuesday, top ranked by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association were LSU (#1), UCLA (#2), Texas (#3), Georgia Tech (#4) and Arkansas (#5).
Other Sports News
Conference Honors:
Ennis Earns Another Spot on American Honorable Mention (Rice Owls)
Trae Broadnax Earns Fourth American Honorable Mention (Rice Owls)
Rice M Golf:
Bentwater Tied for Eighth at Bentwater Intercollegiate (Rice Owls)
Rice W Basketball:
Owls Open Three-Game Homestand with UNT on National TV (Rice Owls)
Other News
Phoebe and Bobby Tudor '82:
The Houston Business Journal has selected Phoebe and Bobby Tudor as the inaugural recipients of its Lifetime Achievement Award for the 2026 Community Leadership Awards, “recognizing decades of civic leadership, philanthropy and service that have helped shape Houston’s cultural, educational and economic landscape". Read more (subscriber content).
Space Humanities Initiative:
Rice explores human meaning of space (Rice News)
Gordon Grubbs (1940-2026):
On January 13, Gordon Grubbs passed away, after a sharp decline due to vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Caracas, he earned a BA in Economics in 1962 from Rice where he met his future wife Clare Kollenberg ’63. He enjoyed a career as a credentialed actuary in Texas and Pennsylvania. And “he was generous, curious, smart, and ridiculously silly”. He is predeceased by Clare (they were married for sixty years when she was also lost to Alzheimer’s disease in 2023). Click here for the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Question:
Name the fastest coach to win a conference title in Rice Women’s Basketball program history. Email your answer(s) here.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
A condensed version of the Update is available by email
Corrections, comments and updates welcome