Daniel Schrager

SPORTS 4/18/23 11:29pm

Farewell to C-USA, the conference that was never supposed to last this long

By Daniel Schrager

There’s a trophy in the Rice baseball offices. It’s from 2006, the Owls’ first season in Conference USA. On the front, it reads “C-USA 2006 Baseball Tournament Champions.” On either side are the logos of nine schools.

SPORTS 4/11/23 11:49pm

Grace Forbes comes to terms with losing her sport

By Daniel Schrager

Grace Forbes has a sweatshirt that she would wear before every race. Her grandfather, who died when she was young, bought it as a souvenir at the 1998 Rose Bowl, before it was passed on to her.

SPORTS 4/4/23 9:38pm

Students, staffers talk work behind the scenes at Final Four

By Daniel Schrager

When San Diego State University guard Lamont Butler hit a corner jumpshot with time expiring – the first buzzer beater in Final Four history hit while trailing – to beat Florida Atlantic University in the men’s college basketball national semifinal, the Owls weren’t the only ones whose plans he foiled.

SPORTS 3/28/23 9:48pm

UTSA’s Hallmark, a longtime Owl, talks return to Reckling

By Daniel Schrager

Patrick Hallmark has walked out of the Reckling Park dugout some 250 times, but the last nine have been from the visitor’s side. Hallmark, who played for Rice before returning to coach the Owls, served as an assistant under former head coach Wayne Graham from 2006 through 2016. Now the head coach of the University of Texas at San Antonio, Hallmark said returning to Rice feels different.

SPORTS 3/21/23 10:09pm

Women’s basketball bounced from NIT by Oregon in second round

By Daniel Schrager

The Rice women’s basketball team couldn’t replicate their 2021 Women’s National Invitational Tournament title run this time around, falling in the second round to the University of Oregon. The Owls kicked off their tournament with a 71-67 win over Brigham Young University on Friday and looked to be on their way towards a second straight road victory on Monday before a relentless third-quarter push by the Ducks gave the hosts a comfortable 78-53 win. Despite the loss, head coach Lindsay Edmonds said she was proud of her team for holding their own in the second most important postseason tournament in the sport.

SPORTS 3/9/23 3:22pm

‘This is March Madness, right?’: MBB narrowly defeats UTSA in C-USA opener

By Daniel Schrager

If college basketball games lasted 40 minutes and half a second, the Rice men’s basketball team’s season would be over right now. After leading nearly the entire game against the No. 11 seed University of Texas at San Antonio in their opening game of the Conference USA tournament, the No. 6 seed Owls allowed UTSA to close the margin to one before guard Japhet Medor drove the length of the court with time expiring, getting his layup to roll in. The initial ruling was that Medor had gotten his shot off just before the clock hit zero, but the call was reversed after a two-and-a-half minute review, giving Rice a 72-71 win.

SPORTS 3/7/23 10:57pm

Baseball upsets Tech, bats go silent against A&M and TCU

By Daniel Schrager

The Rice baseball team got a statement win on a big stage, beating No. 24 Texas Tech University 3-2 on Friday to open the Shriners’ College Classic at Minute Maid Park. But the rest of the weekend didn’t go as planned, and the Owls dropped games to No. 15 Texas A&M University and No. 10 Texas Christian University in lopsided fashion, bringing their record to 4-7.

SPORTS 3/4/23 11:53am

Baseball knocks off No. 24 Texas Tech to open weekend at Minute Maid

By Daniel Schrager

Paul Janish is now undefeated, but the same can’t be said for No. 24 Texas Tech University. Rice’s associate head coach stepped in for head coach Jose Cruz Jr., who missed Friday’s game with a personal matter, and guided the Owls to a 3-2 win over the previously 10-0 Red Raiders to open the Owls’ weekend-long residence at Minute Maid Park.

SPORTS 2/23/23 7:18pm

Baseball heads to No. 2 Stanford twenty years after CWS final

By Daniel Schrager

Twenty years ago, Stanford University was the second-best team in college baseball. The Cardinal finished that season as runners-up in the College World Series, falling short to a team from a small Texas school – Rice. Two decades later, Stanford is once again the No. 2 team in college baseball – this time according to the weekly D1Baseball poll and not postseason results – but the Owls haven’t sniffed the rankings in over half a decade.

SPORTS 2/21/23 11:52pm

After years of trying, Bloomgren finally landed JT Daniels

By Daniel Schrager

While he was in Mobile, Ala., preparing his team for Rice’s first bowl appearance in eight years, head coach Mike Bloomgren was also working on another project. JT Daniels, a former five-star recruit who started three games for the University of Georgia’s 2021 national championship team, had just entered the transfer portal and Bloomgren wanted to lure the then-West Virginia University quarterback to South Main.

Daniel Schrager

Farewell to C-USA, the conference that was never supposed to last this long

Grace Forbes comes to terms with losing her sport

Students, staffers talk work behind the scenes at Final Four

UTSA’s Hallmark, a longtime Owl, talks return to Reckling

Women’s basketball bounced from NIT by Oregon in second round

‘This is March Madness, right?’: MBB narrowly defeats UTSA in C-USA opener

Baseball upsets Tech, bats go silent against A&M and TCU

Baseball knocks off No. 24 Texas Tech to open weekend at Minute Maid

Baseball heads to No. 2 Stanford twenty years after CWS final

After years of trying, Bloomgren finally landed JT Daniels

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