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RiceBasketball RiceSchedule This Is Rice Basketball 2 Date Opponent Location Time Tudor Fieldhouse 6 N 15 Portland State Tudor Fieldhouse 3:00 p.m. Rice Game Day 12 Rice University 16 Rice Athletics 28 Basketball Travelers Invitational Houston 36 N 20 Cal Poly Provo, Utah 6:00 p.m. Previewing the Owls 43 N 21 BYU Provo, Utah 9:30 p.m. Rice Outlook 44 Rice Rosters 47 N 22 North Florida Provo, Utah 7:00 p.m. Rice Owls 49 Player Biographies 50 N 25 Lamar Tudor Fieldhouse 7:00 p.m. Coaching Staff 73 N 30 at Texas Austin, Texas TBA Head Coach Ben Braun 74 Coaching Staff 78 D 4 UTSA Tudor Fieldhouse 7:00 p.m. Competition 83 D 6 Texas State Tudor Fieldhouse 3:00 p.m. Opponent Profiles 84 D 17 Harvard Tudor Fieldhouse 7:30 p.m. Conference USA 93 D 20 at Duquesne Pittsburgh, Pa. 1:00 p.m. 2007-08 Review 95 D 22 Oklahoma Tudor Fieldhouse 7:00 p.m. 2007-08 Results & Statistics 96 Conference USA Statistics 102 D 28 at UALR Little Rock, Ark. TBA 2007-08 Game Recaps 106 D 31 Texas A&M Tudor Fieldhouse 3:00 p.m. 2008 Senior Biographies 116 J 3 at Richmond Richmond, Va. 11:00 a.m. Records 117 J 10 at Tulane New Orleans, La. 2:00 p.m. Year-by-Year Statistics 118 1,000-Point Scorers 120 J 14 SMU Tudor Fieldhouse 7:00 p.m. Individual & Team Records 122 J 17 UCF Tudor Fieldhouse 3:00 p.m. History 135 J 21 at Memphis Memphis, Tenn. 8:00 p.m. Accolades 136 Lettermen 141 J 24 at UAB Birmingham, Ala. 2:00 p.m. Series Records 145 J 28 Tulane Tudor Fieldhouse 7:00 p.m. All-Time Scores 162 J 31 East Carolina Tudor Fieldhouse 1:00 p.m. Leadership 181 F 7 at Houston Houston, Texas 8:00 p.m. University Administration 182 Athletic Administration 185 F 11 Southern Miss Tudor Fieldhouse 7:00 p.m. Media 193 F 14 at East Carolina Greenville, N.C. 6:00 p.m. F 18 UTEP Tudor Fieldhouse 7:00 p.m. Credits: The 2008-09 Rice Basketball Media Guide is published by the Rice University Department of Athletics. The guide was written and F 21 at SMU Dallas, Texas 7:00 p.m. designed by Ron Mears. Editorial assistance provided by Chuck Pool, F 25 at UCF Orlando, Fla. 6:00 p.m. Matt Dunaway and Sam Shainsky. Cover design by Jay Jameson. Pho- tography by Bill Baptist, Anthony Vasser and Tommy LaVergne. Printed F 28 Houston Tudor Fieldhouse 3:00 p.m. by Ideal Printers, Inc., of Houston, Texas. M 4 at Marshall Huntington, W.Va. 6:00 p.m. Copies of the guide are available to the public for $20 and may be ob- M 7 Tulsa Tudor Fieldhouse 3:00 p.m. tained from the Athletic Business Department, Rice University, PO Box M 11-14 C-USA Tourney Memphis, Tenn. TBA 1892, MS 548, Houston, TX 77521-1892. Rice University is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity All Game Times are Central Time. Dates and times are in education and employment. Rice does not discriminate on the basis of subject to change. race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status. University Information Coaching Staff Location Houston, Texas Head Coach Ben Braun Founded 1891 Alma Mater Wisconsin, 1975 Enrollment 5,145 Record at Rice First Season Nickname Owls Overall Record 552-389 (31 seasons) Mascot Sammy the Owl Associate Head Coach Louis Reynaud Colors Blue (pms 281c) and Gray (pms 424c) Alma Mater San Francisco State, 1982 Conference Conference USA Assistant Coach Kevin Mouton Arena Tudor Fieldhouse Alma Mater San Francisco, 1989 Capacity To Be Determined Assistant Coach Mike Roberts Alma Mater Indiana, 2005 University Personnel Basketball Office Phone (713) 348-4075 President David W. Leebron Office Fax (713) 348-5695 Alma Mater Harvard, 1976 Faculty Representative Dr. James Castañeda Support Staff Alma Mater Drew University, 1954 Director, Basketball Operations Marco Morcos Athletics Director Chris Del Conte Video Coordinator Mark Vick Alma Mater UC Santa Barbara Events Coordinator Ryan Hennick Athletics Phone Number (713) 348-6920 Basketball Trainer Nathan Peck Ticket Office Phone Number (713) 348-4068 Strength & Conditioning Coach Scott McLafferty Sports Information Basketball Information Assistant AD/Sports Information Chuck Pool All-Time Record 973-1,218 (94 Seasons) Alma Mater Nebraska, 1980 2007-08 Record 3-27 Email Address [email protected] C-USA Record/Place 0-16/12th Office Number (713) 348-5775 Starters Returning/Lost 3/2 Basketball Contact Ron Mears Lettermen Returning/Lost 6/6 Alma Mater Oklahoma State, 1986 Email Address [email protected] Office Number (713) 348-3929 Mobile Number (832) 969-1310 Home Number (713) 436-4615 Rice opens the 2008-09 basketball season with a new head coach, Ben Braun (right), and will play its home games in a renovated arena, Tudor Fieldhouse (above). Senior Rodney Foster (top) is one of six Rice Facts returning lettermen back for the Owls. Fear the Curtain. It has been a battle cry at Rice basketball games. During its history, Autry Court had a large, navy curtain which separated one endzone from additional court space. With the renovations to Tudor Fieldhouse, the curtain has been removed but its spirit will likely live on. The arena that it once separated has become new courtside, endzone seating for Rice students. The new aluminum bleachers in the endzone are certain to create a new chapter to the fieldhouse’s storied history. Rice Gameday Rice Songs Rice’s Honor (Alma Mater) All for Rice’s Honor, we will fight on. We will be fighting; when this day is done; And when the dawn comes breaking We’ll be fighting on, Rice, For the Gray and Blue. We will be loyal To Rice be true. To the tune of “Our Director March,” written by Ben H. Mitchell ‘24 in 1922 MusicRarely do you see a string section in a basket- ball pep band. But it is the norm when the Rice Owls take the hardwood. Fight For Rice Following football season, the Marching Owl Fight for Rice; Rice, fight on; Band (MOB) morphs into the Basketball Owl Band – The BOB – where violins, violas and cellos compli- Loyal sons, arise! ment the standard instrument fare of trombones The Blue and Gray of Rice today and trumpets. Comes breaking through the skies. The band, which followed the Owls all over Stand and cheer! Victory’s near! Houston last year as the university’s on-campus Sammy leads the way. arena received a major renovation, returns home Onward go, to crush the foe. and to new courtside seats for the 2008-09 sea- We’ll fight for the Blue and Gray. son. Words and music by Louis Gerard ‘40 The Old Gray Bonnet Put on your old gray bonnet, with the blue ribbon on it, And we’ll take old Sammy to the fray; And we’ll rock, rock, rock ‘em, And we’ll sock, sock, sock ‘em To the end of Judgement Day. From its inception, Rice University has been dedicated to creating unconventional wisdom — What Others Are preparing outstanding students for diverse careers and lives, contributing to the advancement of Saying About Rice learning across a wide range of research and schol- Top 20 National Universities, U.S. News arship, and sharing that knowledge and discovery and World Report, 2008 with the world. Best 366 Colleges, The Princeton Review, Rice’s advantages are its relatively small size, 2008 urban location, diversity and environment of inter- No. 1, Best Value Among Private Colleges, disciplinary and interinstitutional collaboration. The Princeton Review, 2008 The university is the second-smallest member of New Ivies, Kaplan/Newsweek College the Association of American Universities. 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