Trivia Question:
First, Mary Jane Kinnebrew and Steve Lukingbeal (2) also correctly answered Tuesday’s trivia question!

Name the couple – both Abilene Christian alums – with deep ties to Rice.  He was a sociology professor at Rice for almost forty years and author of numerous books and magazine articles.   In her thirty years at Rice, she was a student, teacher, editor, faculty wife, college master and administrator.  One point for each.  Email your answer(s) here.

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Dominique Ennis holds the record for single season three-point goals (81) set this season on Saturday.  (And she hit 2 more last night.)  She broke her own record of 80 set last season. That record topped the previous record of 74 jointly held by Jenny Cafferty (1999-2000) and Nicole Iademarco (2017-18).  (Thanks, Clarke Anderson, Chris Kohnhorst and Paul Reese!) 

Trivia Question:
Name the player who holds the single-season three-point record in Rice Women’s Basketball program history.  For a bonus point, name the player whose record she broke.  Email your answer(s) here.

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Rice presidents George Rupp (PhD ’72) and David Leebron (BA ‘76/JD ’79) earned Harvard degrees.  (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)

This weekend, the Owls baseball team hosts the Crimson to a three-game set at Reckling Park.

Trivia Question:
Name the two Rice presidents with degrees from Harvard.  Email your answer(s) here.

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Current Rice W basketball player Louann Battiston transferred from Duke. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!) 

Trivia Question:
Name the current Rice basketball player who transferred from Duke.  Email your answer here.

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USC baseball assistant coach Sean Allen previously served on Coach David Pierce’s staffs for eleven seasons at San Houston State (2011-14), Tulane (2015-16) and Texas (2017-22).   (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)

Trivia Question:
Name the USC baseball assistant coach who previously served on Coach David Pierce’s staff.  Email your answer here.
 

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Lance Berkman ‘98, the uncle of Rice baseball pitcher Ty Baker, received the ARA Distinguished Alumni Award in 2015. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)

Trivia Question:
Name the pitcher on the Rice baseball roster whose uncle received the ARA Distinguished Alumni Award.  Email your answer here.

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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.