Friday, October 25
Miami, FL
6 PM
Rice University
at
FIU
Soccer Plays Weekend Matches In Florida
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RICE at FIU | Oct. 25 at 6 PM | Live Stats | Watch
RICE at FAU | Oct. 27 at Noon | Live Stats | Watch
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THIS WEEK: The Rice soccer team is back on the road for a pair of Conference USA league games this weekend. The Owls play at Florida International on Friday (Oct. 25) at 6 pm followed by Florida Atlantic on Sunday (Oct. 27) at 12 Noon. All times listed are Central Time.
QUICK ON THE OWLS: Rice is 8-4-2 overall but a closer look at the team's schedule is in order. The team's four losses have been to Alabama, Oregon State, South Florida and SMU – who entered this weekend with a combined record of 36-15-6. If you prefer the cold, hard, math of the NCAA Ratings Power Index, then consider the average R.P.I. for those four opponents is 42. Rice had a gritty performance to begin C-USA action with a 1-0 victory over a Charlotte team that is currently tied for first in the league standings. The Owls picked up four points in a pair of C-USA road games (Sept. 26-29) by rallying from a 2-0 deficit to tie Middle Tennessee 2-2, then turning right around and winning at UTSA 1-0. The Blue & Gray again used late heroics to defeat UAB at home 1-0. The Owls picked up another C-USA road point with a draw at LA Tech (Oct. 13). Last weekend Rice tallied wins over Marshall and Western Kentucky.
STANDINGS WATCH: The Owls are unbeaten in C-USA league play (5-0-2) coming down the final two weeks of the conference schedule. Rice has 17 points in C-USA matches to hold sole possession of third place in the league standings, a single point behind co-leaders Charlotte and North Texas (both 6-1-0, 18 points).
COACH'S CORNER: Rice soccer is under the direction of head coach Brian Lee, who is in his first season at the helm of the program. A 2018 finalist for National Coach of the Year and with 25 years of experience as a Division I head coach, Lee enters this week's game with a career record of 295-192-57. Lee's Rice coaching staff includes Megan Kinneman, Travis Curson and Allysha Chapman, all in their first year with the Owl program. Coach Lee's weekly video preview is available at the above link, and in this latest edition he also introduces the newest Owl signee!
SERIES HISTORY VS. FIU: The Owls have faced FIU only four times since the Panthers joined Conference USA in 2013. The series is deadlocked 2-2-0. Friday's match is the third time for Rice to face the Golden Panthers in Miami, Fla., a site where the Owls have never won. Note that Rice also played at the FIU Soccer complex when the C-USA Tournament was held there in 2015. The Owls dropped a single-elimination match to the Blue Raiders (on the FIU campus) by a score of 1-0.
SERIES HISTORY VS. FAU: Rice leads the series with FAU, 3-2-0. In 2014 Rice won the inaugural Owls-v-Owls meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., by a score of 3-2. FAU bounced-back to win the 2015 contest in Houston by the same 3-2 count, only in double-overtime. When the teams played in Florida in 2016, Rice claimed a narrow 1-0 victory in overtime. Rice's 6-2 win at Holloway Field in 2017 was the first time in the series for the home team to win. A year ago FAU slipped away with a 1-0 win at Holloway Field.
NEXT WEEK: After Sunday's road game at FAU the Owls are back home for a crucial C-USA match against North Texas on November 1. Start time at Holloway Field is set for 7 pm. The Rice seniors will be honored before kickoff.
RICE at FAU | Oct. 27 at Noon | Live Stats | Watch
(On-line features activate at game time)
THIS WEEK: The Rice soccer team is back on the road for a pair of Conference USA league games this weekend. The Owls play at Florida International on Friday (Oct. 25) at 6 pm followed by Florida Atlantic on Sunday (Oct. 27) at 12 Noon. All times listed are Central Time.
QUICK ON THE OWLS: Rice is 8-4-2 overall but a closer look at the team's schedule is in order. The team's four losses have been to Alabama, Oregon State, South Florida and SMU – who entered this weekend with a combined record of 36-15-6. If you prefer the cold, hard, math of the NCAA Ratings Power Index, then consider the average R.P.I. for those four opponents is 42. Rice had a gritty performance to begin C-USA action with a 1-0 victory over a Charlotte team that is currently tied for first in the league standings. The Owls picked up four points in a pair of C-USA road games (Sept. 26-29) by rallying from a 2-0 deficit to tie Middle Tennessee 2-2, then turning right around and winning at UTSA 1-0. The Blue & Gray again used late heroics to defeat UAB at home 1-0. The Owls picked up another C-USA road point with a draw at LA Tech (Oct. 13). Last weekend Rice tallied wins over Marshall and Western Kentucky.
STANDINGS WATCH: The Owls are unbeaten in C-USA league play (5-0-2) coming down the final two weeks of the conference schedule. Rice has 17 points in C-USA matches to hold sole possession of third place in the league standings, a single point behind co-leaders Charlotte and North Texas (both 6-1-0, 18 points).
COACH'S CORNER: Rice soccer is under the direction of head coach Brian Lee, who is in his first season at the helm of the program. A 2018 finalist for National Coach of the Year and with 25 years of experience as a Division I head coach, Lee enters this week's game with a career record of 295-192-57. Lee's Rice coaching staff includes Megan Kinneman, Travis Curson and Allysha Chapman, all in their first year with the Owl program. Coach Lee's weekly video preview is available at the above link, and in this latest edition he also introduces the newest Owl signee!
SERIES HISTORY VS. FIU: The Owls have faced FIU only four times since the Panthers joined Conference USA in 2013. The series is deadlocked 2-2-0. Friday's match is the third time for Rice to face the Golden Panthers in Miami, Fla., a site where the Owls have never won. Note that Rice also played at the FIU Soccer complex when the C-USA Tournament was held there in 2015. The Owls dropped a single-elimination match to the Blue Raiders (on the FIU campus) by a score of 1-0.
SERIES HISTORY VS. FAU: Rice leads the series with FAU, 3-2-0. In 2014 Rice won the inaugural Owls-v-Owls meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., by a score of 3-2. FAU bounced-back to win the 2015 contest in Houston by the same 3-2 count, only in double-overtime. When the teams played in Florida in 2016, Rice claimed a narrow 1-0 victory in overtime. Rice's 6-2 win at Holloway Field in 2017 was the first time in the series for the home team to win. A year ago FAU slipped away with a 1-0 win at Holloway Field.
NEXT WEEK: After Sunday's road game at FAU the Owls are back home for a crucial C-USA match against North Texas on November 1. Start time at Holloway Field is set for 7 pm. The Rice seniors will be honored before kickoff.
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