Texas
Feb. 13-15 (Reckling Park) |
 - The first of two four-game super series at Reckling Park, featuring a Saturday double-header!
- Texas returns seven of eight position starters from last season's team which went 46-21 and finished third at the CWS
- Texas' incoming recruiting class was ranked seventh nationally. The group of 10 signees includes three players that were taken in the MLB Draft but chose going to school over signing professionally
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Houston Baptist
Feb. 17 (Reckling Park) |
 - Crosstown town foe making a trip to Reckling Park for the second-straight season
- The Huskies shared the Southland Conference lead in team hitting (.292) last season
- Not only did versatile standout Curtis Jones bat a team-best .361 with 33 runs scored, he maintained a 3.64 ERA starting 13 games with a team-high 89.0 innings
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Arizona
Feb. 20-22 (Tucson, Ariz.) |
- The Owls are making their first trip to Arizona since splitting a two-game series with the Wildcats in 2011
- Arizona won the NCAA National Championship in 2012
- Wildcat shortstop Kevin Newman is the Cape Cod batting title champion
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Stephen F. Austin
Feb. 25 (Reckling Park) |
 - Head coach Johnny Cardenas is entering his seventh season at the helm of the Lumberjacks
- The 'Jacks return five starting position players from last season and three bench players. On the mound, SFA returns two starting pitchers from the weekend rotation
- Assistant coach Michael Haynes is the younger brother of former Owl pitcher Mark Haynes
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Stanford
Feb. 27-March 1 (Reckling Park) |
- The second of two four-game super series at Reckling Park, featuring a Saturday double-header!
- Head coach Mark Marquess enters his 39th year with 1,530 career wins
- Returns 100% of starting pitching that reached the NCAA Super Regionals before falling to eventual National Champion Vanderbilt on the road in Nashville
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TCU
March 3 (Fort Worth) |
- Advanced to the 2014 College World Series, becoming one of just 11 schools with multiple appearances in the CWS in the last five years
- Returns a pair of All-Americans in Riley Ferrell and Preston Morrison - the Pitcher of the Year in two leagues (MWC and Big12)
- Won the 2014 Big 12 Postseason Tournament, and has appeared in 10 of the last 11 NCAA Regionals
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Charlotte
March 6-8 (Charlotte, N.C.) |
- Charlotte made its C-USA debut last season, but this is the first league meeting for Rice and the 49ers
- Head coach Loren Hibbs begins his 23rd season at the helm, the longest-tenured coach at the school
- The 49ers return 21 veteran lettermen, including seven starters in the batting order, from last season
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Lamar
March 10 (Reckling Park)
March 31 (Beaumont) |
 - Lamar went 31-25 last season, qualifying for the Southland Conference Tournament
- The annual home & away series with the Cardinals has been split 1-1 in four of the last five seasons
- With no shortage of experience, six Lamar seniors return in the starting batting order
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Texas State
March 11 (Reckling Park) |
- Ty Harrington, the longest tenured baseball coach in school history, is beginning his 16th season at the helm of the program
- Assistant Coach Jeremy Fikac spent seven years as a Major League pitcher
- The lone meeting in this longtime rivalry is set for March 11 at Reckling Park
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Louisiana Tech
March 13-15 (Reckling Park) |
 - It's a new era for Louisiana Tech baseball, now under the direction of head coach Greg Goff
- The Bulldogs have brought in 17 newcomers to go along with four returning starters in the batting order
- Veteran right-hander Phil Maton returns to the mound for his senior season with a chance to re-write the Bulldog record books
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Houston
March 17 (Cougar Field)
April 14 (Reckling Park)
May 12 (Constellation Field) |
 - Crosstown rival coming off a sensational 2014 season that featured a school record-tying 48 wins and NCAA Super Regional appearance.
- Won the inaugural American Athletic Conference Championship tournament title
- Unique three-game series features a finale at Constellation Field, the minor league home of the Sugar Land Skeeters
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Old Dominion
March 20-22 (Norfolk, Va.) |
 - Each of the five meetings last season with the NCAA Regional-bound Monarchs was a battle, totaling more than 53 innings with three one-run games.
- Last year ODU finished third in the nation in turning double plays with a school record 68
- Baseball alumni is led by all-star Justin Verlander; This season keep an eye on sophomore twin brothers in Sam and Kurt Sinnen
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Sam Houston
March 24 (Reckling Park)
March 25 (Huntsville) |
- Longtime foe Sam Houston is in its first season with new head coach Matt Deggs
- The Bearkats have made three-straight NCAA Regional appearances on the strength of three-straight Southland titles
- A new-look feature of this series is playing back-to-back games, at home then away, in late-March
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Southern Miss
March 27-29 (Reckling Park) |
- A Conference USA rival who has appeared in 12 NCAA Regionals, one Super Regional and reached the College World Series
- Since 2010, USM has won or shared C-USA championships three times - including two regular season crowns (2011, 2013) and one tournament title (2010)
- The Golden Eagles have hosted the C-USA tournaments at its home facility, Pete Taylor Park/Hill Denson Field, a total of four times, the most of any league school
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Middle Tennessee
April 3-5 (Reckling Park) |
- Middle Tennessee closed out the 2014 regular season by winning eight of their final 11 games to finish 31-27
- The Blue Raiders, who won two-of-three over Rice at home in Tennessee last season, visit Reckling Park in early April
- MTSU finished C-USA play with a 17-13 record, posting the most wins in league play since collecting 20 in 2010
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Texas A&M
April 7 (College Station) |
- A&M boasts 2,514 wins in program history, the only SEC team and one of just 12 teams in Division I, to reach the milestone
- Currently on a program-long stretch of eight-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and has made 30 overall
- The Aggies have produced a winning season in 51 of the last 53 years
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UAB
April 10-12 (Birmingham, Ala.) |
- Brian Shoop won the 900th game of his career last season and was named the C-USA Keith LeClair Coach of the Year
- In 2014 Blazers won 20 C-USA games, its most in school history for a second-place finish that was the program's best as a league member
- Traditionally a tough road trip for Rice, the Owls have won just one series in Birmingham, Ala., since 2008
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UTSA
April 17-19 (Reckling Park) |
 - April series at Reckling Park is a rematch between the teams that played for the 2014 Conference USA Tournament title
- UTSA is under the direction of Jason Marshall, only the fourth head coach in the history of the Roadrunners' baseball program
- Weekend pitchers Brock Hartson and Nolan Trabanino, as well as home runs leader Jesse Baker, all return in 2015
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Western Kentucky
April 24-26 (Bowling Green, Ky) |
- New C-USA foe who returns six of its top nine hitters from a 2014 team that ranked among the national leaders in hits (18th, 560), doubles (7th, 116) and slugging percentage (26th, .416)
- The Hilltoppers qualified for three NCAA Regionals during their final 11 years in the Sun Belt Conference - winning tourney titles in 2004 and 2008, and an at-large NCAA invitation in 2009 after a 42-win season
- WKU is noted for playing its best baseball against the nation's elite programs, taking down nine Top 25 opponents since 2008
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Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
May 6 (Reckling Park) |
 - Head coach Scott Malone is in his eighth year at the helm of the program
- The Islanders return six offensive starters and its weekend rotation from a 2014 team that finished tied for third in the Southland Conference
- The May 6 contest marks Rice's return to the diamond after final exams and is the Owls' last non-conference home game of the regular season
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FAU
May 8-10 (Boca Raton, Fla.) |
- FAU returns seven position starters and 10 pitchers who saw action in 2014
- The team added 16 signees to its 2015 squad including National Junior College Athletic Association Division II Player of the Year and All-American Roman Collins
- In 2014 FAU was undefeated (26-0) when leading after 8 innings, and head coach John McCormack's squad is 155-4 when leading after the seventh inning
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FIU
May 14-16 (Reckling Park) |
 - The Panthers finished their first season in Conference USA with a record of 36-20
- Under head coach Turtle Thomas, Aramis Garcia was named the C-USA Player of the Year and a semifinalists for the Johnny Bench Award
- RHP Chris Mourelle led all C-USA freshmen and was tied for third among all pitchers in victories with nine
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