Rice Opens 2025-26 Season at South Dakota State

The New Season

Rice ladies’s basketball opens the 2025-26 marketing campaign Friday evening on the street towards the reigning Summit League champion South Dakota State. The Owls will likely be again in Houston on Tuesday, however on the Fertitta Center towards the University of Houston.

Rice vs. South Dakota State

This is simply the second-ever assembly between the 2 faculties, with the Jackrabbits profitable final season’s matchup 65-63 in Tudor Fieldhouse.

Non-conference Schedule

Rice’s non-conference options seven groups that made postseason appearances final season, with South Dakota State and Princeton making the NCAA Tournament. Middle Tennessee and UNLV each performed within the WBIT, whereas Incarnate Word, Illinois State (Fab Four) and UT Arlington had been all within the WNIT.

Preseason Honors

Three Owls earned preseason All-Conference honors with Dominique Ennis (First Team), Aniah Alexis (Second Team) and Victoria Flores (Second Team) all incomes recognition. Rice was chosen third within the American Conference Preseason Coaches Poll.

Adams Named Servant Leader

Hailey Adams was one in all 64 ladies’s basketball athletes within the nation chosen to be a Kay Yow Servant Leader Award winner, a prestigious award honoring pupil athletes who exemplify the values of management, selflessness, and repair.

Year Five

Shelley Pennington and Friends Head Coach Lindsay Edmonds enters her fifth 12 months on the helm for Rice. Already the quickest coach to win a convention title in program historical past, the Owls are recent off back-to-back appearances within the American Conference Championship recreation, claiming the title in 2024.