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.

Trivia Question:
First, way to go to Larry Nettles who also correctly answered Tuesday's trivia question!

Name the Northwestern graduate who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize and the National Medal of Arts. Email your answer here.

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Coach Lindsay Edmonds is the fastest coach to win a conference title in Rice Women’s Basketball program history.  She achieved this milestone by leading the Owls to the American Athletic Conference (AAC) title during the 2023-2024 season, which was her third year at the helm.  Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)

Last night, the Rice Women’s Basketball team rallied past North Texas for its 16th straight win, 70-68.

Trivia Question:
Name the fastest coach to win a conference title in Rice Women’s Basketball program history.  Email your answer(s) here. 

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Coach Todd Graham was the first Rice head football coach to reach a bowl game in his initial season, taking the Owls to the New Orleans Bowl in 2006.  “Then he left.”

Trivia Question:
Coach Scott Abell is set to become the second Rice head football coach to take his team to a bowl game in his initial season. Name the first Rice head football coach to do so.  For a bonus point, what bowl game did he take his team to?  For another bonus point, what year was the bowl game?  Email your answer(s) here. 

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Last Saturday, Dominique Ennis became the all-time leader in three-pointers made in the Rice Women’s Basketball program.  Through Saturday, she has made 202 career three-pointers in the program.  (Thanks, Tre Fischer and Chris Kohnhorst!)