Game Date: Jan 12th, 2045

Rice

Team: Rice Owls [ID #88]

Location: Houston, TX (Southwest)

Conference: III.4 [Division 1]

President: Frankebasta
          [since February 04th 2018 | last seen May 04th 2025]

Coach: Damon Cook

Arena: Rice Gymnasium

Rank: #21

Rating: 198.43 - Overall Position: #113

Fan Mood: 135.62

Alumni Mood: 213.05

Prestige: 120

Team Notes:

• Dec 08 2044: 3-star prospect Danny Trevisan committed.
• Nov 12 2044: 3-star prospect Deion Blackmon committed.
• Oct 06 2044: Earl Moffet was inducted into the team Hall of Fame.
• Oct 06 2044: Archie Bryant was inducted into the team Hall of Fame.
• Sep 01 2044: Promoted to conference III.4.
• Mar 13 2044: Made the national tournament field.
• Mar 05 2044: Won the IV.8 conference.
• Jan 07 2044: 2-star prospect Federico Castillo committed.
• Dec 03 2043: 3-star prospect Enrique Villarreal committed.
• Nov 21 2043: 3-star prospect Sheldon Smith committed.

Record:

Wins: 20 Losses: 5 Pct: .800     Conf Wins: 11 Conf Losses: 4 Conf Pct: .733 Conf Rank: 2     Last10: 8-2 Streak: W1

Pts Ave: 87.5 - 70.0     Pts Diff: +17.5     Team Power Index: 151.9

Press Releases:

Mar 24 2039: Owls of '39 - by Frankebasta on June 25th, 2024

in 2039, for the very first time in school's history, the Rice Owls reach their best result both in Regular Season (2nd place and promotion), and the Top16 in the Division 2 Tournament.

Amazing accomplishment by an otherwise underwhelming and smallish team:

JR PG Savage 6'1"
JR SG Stratton 6'
SR SF Blanton 6'3½"
JR PF Hodge 6'6"
SR C Dent 6'8"



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



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