Game Date: Feb 25th, 2038

Rice

Team: Rice Owls [ID #88]

Location: Houston, TX (Southwest)

Conference: IV.8 [Division 1]

President: Frankebasta
          [since February 04th 2018 | last seen April 18th 2024]

Coach: Van Hubbard

Arena: Rice Gymnasium

Rating: 195.79 - Overall Position: #123

Fan Mood: 85.17

Alumni Mood: 188.20

Prestige: 78

Team Notes:

• Jan 23 2038: 2-star prospect Poyraz Aydın committed.
• Dec 12 2037: 2-star prospect Ivano Petrović committed.
• Nov 14 2037: 1-star prospect Chris Ricci committed.
• Oct 08 2037: Enrique Alicea was hired as the new assistant coach.
• Oct 08 2037: Assistant coach Shannon Stein was let go.
• Jun 30 2037: Harold Clement was drafted round #1, pick #7 by Atlanta.
• Dec 20 2036: 3-star prospect Jian Zhao committed.
• Oct 02 2036: Noah McCrary was hired as the new assistant coach.
• Oct 02 2036: Assistant coach Paul Holly was let go.
• Oct 02 2036: Gary Dolf was inducted into the team Hall of Fame.

Record:

Wins: 14 Losses: 23 Pct: .378     Conf Wins: 8 Conf Losses: 19 Conf Pct: .296 Conf Rank: 15     Last10: 4-6 Streak: W1

Pts Ave: 77.8 - 83.5     Pts Diff: -5.7     Team Power Index: 137.9

Press Releases:

Oct 28 2026: 1st place! (for real this time) - by Frankebasta on July 9th, 2022

on day3 2055, Rice is on 1st place of Division I for RPI with a score of 0.773

All the credit goes to Coach Ricci, and to the Game Engine as well


Feb 20 2025: Rice hires Ricci - by Frankebasta on April 23rd, 2022

Breaking news from Houston:
Gary Ricci will lead the team for the last stretch in fight for the promotion!
Coach Diggs has been suddenly dismissed after losing 3 of the last 5 games, risking to fail.
Diggs took all the blame for those failures, which shows his character, but he couldn't hide his shortcomings in game management. Offence skills of 2, and a 3 in Defence are not enough for a Division I head coach.

Coach Ricci, on the other hand, has an excellent reputation, skills of 15 and 16 respecticely, and he's also excellent in Players development.
Last - BUT NOT LEAST - he's got the same surname of the school's President.

Nepotism?
we think.... not
Coach Ricci is a solid D1 coach!


Dec 22 2022: Rice enters Top25 - by Frankebasta on December 13th, 2021

on the strenght of two 4-star players as Palumbo and Gies, Rice Owls are on a roll.
Unbeaten after 19 games, ranks 4th in Division 1 by RPI, and has been voted as 23rd best in the country


Oct 31 2018: Rice Owls, 1st in Hardwood! :) - by Frankebasta on April 19th, 2021

after recruiting Round #8, season 2019, Rice Owls are the hottest recruiting team in the country with 32 points in the special ranking, thanks to the commitment of two 4-star local prospects:
center Brett Palumbo
and guard Karl Gies

President Frankebasta gives credit to coach Benny Pierson for the achievement.

a pep rally will be organized to welcome the new Owls stars in occasion of the first home game of Conference play