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14-Seed Rice Women’s Basketball to face LSU in 2024 NCAA Tournament
Rice Women’s Basketball has earned a 14-Seed in the 2024 NCAA Tournament and will open up against 3-Seed LSU in Baton Rouge. For the first time since 2019, Rice Women’s Basketball is going dancing. The Owls clinched an automatic berth in the 2024 NCAA Tournament when they cut down the nets this week in Forth […]
Potential Rice Basketball head coaching candidates
Rice Basketball is in the market for a new head coach after moving on from Scott Pera. Who might the Owls target for the job? Following an 11-21 season, Scott Pera is out as the head coach of Rice Basketball. This decision doesn’t come as a surprise to many and likely has been in the […]
BREAKING: Rice Basketball parts ways with head coach Scott Pera
Effective immediately, Scott Pera has been relieved of duties as the head coach of Rice Basketball following a 10-21 season, his seventh at South Main. The Scott Pera era of Rice basketball has officially come to an end, the program announced on Thursday, the day following the end of the Owls’ season with a conference […]
Rice Women’s Basketball routs ECU, wins AAC Championship
Rice Women’s Basketball is headed to the NCAA Tournament, routing East Carolina to win the Owls’ first-ever American Conference Championship. Any concerns that Rice women’s basketball would be out of gas as they walked onto the court for their fourth game in as many games dwindled in a matter of minutes as the Owls executed […]
Rice Basketball season comes to an end with AAC Tourney loss to Wichita State
Rice basketball came out hot but was unable to finish, falling to Wichita State in the first round of the AAC Tournament in Fort Worth, TX. Shocked doesn’t even begin to accurately describe how Rice basketball must have felt midway through the first half on Wednesday afternoon. The 13-Seed Owls had taken a 17-4 lead […]
Rice Women’s Basketball tops Temple, advances to AAC Title Game
Rice Women’s Basketball got pivotal plays from its leaders in crunch time to knock off Temple and advance to the AAC Championship Game. Two of the better defensive teams in the American Conference slugged it out in the semi-finals on Tuesday night as Rice Women’s basketball took on Temple with a trip to the conference […]
Rice Women’s Basketball edges North Texas to reach AAC Tourney Semi-Finals
It took a full 40 minutes, but Rice Women’s Basketball came out on top, holding on to a one-point lead in the final minute to take down North Texas. The intensity was palpable on the floor of Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas on Monday night as 10-Seed Rice Women’s Basketball battled with 2-Seed North […]
Rice Women’s Basketball bests UAB, moves on in AAC Tourney
Rice Women’s Basketball bounced back from a regular season loss at UAB, getting the better of the Blazers in the AAC Tournament to survive and advance. Defense set the tone for Rice women’s basketball in their opening game of the American Athletic Conference Tournament against UAB. They gave up 87 points to the Blazers in […]
Rice Basketball drops Senior Day battle to North Texas
Rice basketball and North Texas battled back and forth throughout the first half before the Mean Green found another gear and pulled away, handing the Owls a loss on Senior Day. The latest edition of an intrastate rivalry between Rice basketball and North Texas began with a technical foul against the Owls, dictated by AAC […]
2024 AAC Women’s Basketball Tournament Preview
The 2024 AAC Women’s Basketball Tournament is slated to tip off in Fort Worth, TX this week. Here’s a preview of the action. The Favorite: Tulsa Temira Poindexter and Delanie Crawford rank second and third in the AAC in scoring. No team in the league boasts a tandem as productive as this one has been […]
Rice Basketball comes up short at Charlotte
Rice basketball stayed within striking distance but was never able to land a finishing blow, dropping a hard-fought game to Charlotte. It wouldn’t have been readily apparent to any onlookers Wednesday night that the on-court battle they were witnessing was between teams on opposite ends of the American Conference standings. Rice basketball took Charlotte to […]
Rice Women’s Basketball falls to UTSA, skids into AAC Tournament
Rice Women’s Basketball dropped its fifth consecutive contest, falling on the road to UTSA in the final game of the regular season. Malia Fisher went supernova, delivering a Herculean performance in the final Rice women’s basketball game of the regular season. She scored the first points for the Owls. She scored the last points. Altogether […]
Rice Basketball can’t keep pace with red-hot Wichita State shooting
Rice basketball traded blows early, but ran out of steam in the second half, falling on the road to Wichita State by a final score of 87-65. Points were volleyed back and forth as Rice Basketball traded buckets with Wichita State in the early goings of their matchup on Saturday night. The first two field […]
Shooting fizzles as Rice Basketball falls to Temple
Rice basketball never found its groove from the floor, falling behind early against Temple and never rallying back. It took Rice basketball a while to get going in an all-Owl affair at Tudor Fieldhouse on Wednesday night. The visiting Temple Owls controlled the pace of the game in the early going, starting the score with […]
Rice Women’s Basketball drops home tilt to Temple
Rice Women’s Basketball fell behind early to Temple and couldn’t mount a comeback, dropping their third straight as the conference tournament looms. Temple didn’t waste any time asserting their intentions on Sunday afternoon. As Rice women’s basketball slowly took their time ramping up, the visiting Owls jumped out to a 13-4 lead, putting the home […]
Rice basketball drops ECU for first AAC home win
Winners of several big road games, Rice basketball finally made history at home on Saturday, beating ECU for the program’s first AAC home win. With the month of March looming, Rice basketball seems to have found another gear. Days removed from a statement win in Birmingham over a red-hot UAB squad, the Owls notched a […]
Rice Women’s Basketball: The most unselfish team in (the) America(n)
Rice women’s basketball isn’t led by one singular star, instead leaning on a deep roster that shares the ball and just keeps winning games. Rice women’s basketball is not your conventional team, at least not in today’s era of the sport where one superstar can take you a long way. The Owls sit within striking […]
Rice Basketball bullies UAB on the road
Rice basketball made itself at home in Bartow Arena, blasting the hosting UAB Blazers in an onslaught that seemed out of reach by halftime. UAB had won nine games in a row at home before Rice basketball arrived in Birmingham on Wednesday night. That streak has officially been reset, falling emphatically behind a comprehensive beatdown […]
Early turnovers doom Rice Women’s Basketball at Memphis
Rice Women’s Basketball struggled early and was unable to complete a comeback, falling to Memphis on the road. The shots were falling early for Rice women’s basketball, but they weren’t coming often enough. Slippery hands led to an astounding 14 turnovers in the first half, forcing the visiting Owls into an uphill battle against a […]
Rice basketball drops OT finish at Tulsa
A back-and-forth battle ended with a lopsided overtime result as Rice basketball ran out of gas in extra minutes at Tulsa. Not too far removed from a thriller that went down to the wire, Rice basketball and Tulsa produced another back-and-forth slugfest the second time around. Alem Huseinovic and Max Fiedler provided the offensive spark […]
Rice Women’s Basketball falls to UAB on the road
Rice Women’s Basketball saw a three-game winning streak snapped on Saturday, falling to UAB on the road. Tied in the win column with North Texas entering the weekend, Rice women’s basketball was riding a hot streak to the top of the AAC standings. That momentum looked to continue at tip off against UAB with Malia […]
Rice Women’s Basketball thumps ECU
Rice Women’s Basketball held serve for a quarter before turning on the gas and blasting past ECU, sweeping the Pirates on the season. Some teams have an extra gear. That might be the best way to sum up what happened Wednesday night at Tudor Fieldhouse when Rice women’s basketball routed a good East Carolina team […]
Rice Women’s Basketball leans on bench to blow past Tulsa
Rice Women’s Basketball jumped out to an early lead against Tulsa, controlling the game in a convincing home victory. Rice women’s basketball never led the first time they took the court against Tulsa this season. The Owls trailed for most of that game before mounting a late comeback in the final minutes to tie, but […]
Rice Basketball falters late, falling to USF at home
The roller coaster ride of this Rice Basketball continued on Saturday as the Owls climbed to a big lead before falling to South Florida at home. Roller coasters and the current Rice basketball season have more in common than one might care to admit. Fresh off a blowout loss against SMU, Rice went found itself […]
Alem Huseinovic’s huge night not enough as Rice Basketball falls to SMU
Alem Huseinovic’s huge night was not enough to keep pace with a furious SMU attack as Rice basketball remains winless at home in AAC play. SMU started the scoring at Tudor Fieldhouse and did not stop, shooting better than 50 percent in the first half against Rice basketball. With defense unable to keep the Mustangs […]
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