Bowling in the Big Easy
· With another come-from-behind victory, the football team secured its first bowl berth in 45 years Saturday with a 31-27 victory over Southern Methodist University (6-6, 4-4). Rice (7-5, 6-2 Conference-USA) has since accepted an invitation to play in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl Dec. 22 at 7 p.m., which will be televised on ESPN2. While getting to a bowl game is a feat many thought impossible at the beginning of the season, Head Coach Todd Graham said the Owls are not satisfied.
Women's basketball to host No. 10 Texas A&M tonight
· Having just completed a four-game stretch with its share of blowouts and nail-biters, the women's basketball team will face its two toughest opponents of the season this weekend at Autry Court. Tonight at 7 p.m., Texas A&M University will travel to Rice for the first time in six years. Marquette University, the runner-up at last year's Women's National Invitation Tournament, will take on the Owls Sunday at 2 p.m.
Almond scores 42 in Owls' loss at Utah
· The out-of-conference schedule continued to give the men's basketball team problems over the weekend as they lost to the previously winless Utah Utes, 80-64. This latest defeat came five days after Rice (3-4) watched a 10 point lead slip away in the final two minutes of their 79-73 overtime loss to Oregon at Autry Court.