Owls Host North Texas for Senior Day Saturday

Rice Owls (15-12, 9-7 AAC) vs. North Texas Mean Green (21-7, 11-5 AAC)
Game 28 • Saturday, March 2, 2024 • 2:00 p.m. CT
Houston, Texas • Tudor Fieldhouse
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Senior Day
The Owls will have their final home game of the season Saturday afternoon against North Texas. Rice will honor Destiny Jackson as part of the Senior Day ceremony. The Owls finish the regular season next Tuesday at UTSA.

Last Time Out
The Owls dropped a 75-66 home contest to Temple last Sunday afternoon. Malia Fisher led Rice with a career-high 24 points while Destiny Jackson finished with 13 points.

Rice vs. North Texas
This is the 22nd meeting all-time between the two, with the Owls holding a 14-7 series lead. The two split last year's season series, with each side defending their home court. North Texas has won three of the last four meetings with Rice.

All About Jazz(y)
Jazzy Owens-Barnett was named the AAC Player of the Week (2-12) after netting a career-high 21 points at South Florida and 17 points against Tulsa, leading Rice to both wins. She also had a stretch of six-consecutive made three-pointers between the two games. This is her first career conference honor and Rice's first player of the week honor this season. Rice has had three AAC Honor Roll honorees (Dominique Ennis x2, Destiny Jackson).

50 Off the Bench
The Owls scored a season-high 50 points from the bench in Rice's win over East Carolina. This marked the most bench points since 2016 (52 against Huston-Tillotson) and most against a DI opponent since 2000 (50 against Iona).

50 in the Books
Shelley Pennington and Friends Head Coach Lindsay Edmonds earned her 50th career win last Saturday at South Florida. She became the fastest coach to reach the milestone, doing so in just 81 games.

Weekly Honors (1/22)
Dominique Ennis earned her second weekly conference honor, being named to the AAC Honor Roll. Ennis led the Owls to a 2-0 week, averaging 17.5 points per game on the week, with 19 at East Carolina and 16 at Tulane.

DJ's World (We're Just Living in it)
After hitting the game-winning layup as time expired in Rice's 65-63 win at SMU, Destiny Jackson was named to the weekly AAC Honor Roll. Jackson finished the game with a season-high 17 points, a season-high seven assists, six rebounds, a block and a steal. She finished with 12 points, three rebounds and three assists in Rice's 76-64 win against Wichita State.

Dom-inant
Dominique Ennis earned the first AAC Honor for the Owls, being named to the AAC Honor Roll after dropping a career-high 25 points, with six three-pointers, while adding a career-high five assists, five rebounds and four steals in Rice's 74-44 win over Texas Southern. Ennis added another 14 points at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

Maya Buckets
Maya Bokunewicz drained seven threes in Rice's 73-62 win over Saint Mary's, tying the school record for threes in a game (fourth time, second for Maya). Bokunewicz joins Jenny Cafferty (Fresno State 1-27-00), Kara Liggett (San Jose State 2-17-00), Katelyn Crosthwait (UTSA 1-16-23) and herself (UAB 3-5-22) with seven in a game.

Fisher Tabbed for Preseason Honors, Owls Picked Third
Junior forward Malia Fisher was named to the 2023 Preseason All-AAC Second Team. Fisher, an All-C-USA Second Teamer last season, was second on the team with 11.8 points per game while leading the team with 6.3 rebounds per game. She also had a team-high five double-doubles on the season. Fisher had a career-high 22 points, including the game-winning steal and layup against Louisiana Tech. Rice was selected third in the team's AAC debut, finishing behind preseason favorite South Florida and last season's champion East Carolina.
Traffic Advisory:
Due to ongoing repairs to a section of a water pipe near the intersection of Main and University, which will result in the closure of sections of University, all fans attending upcoming home games are strongly encouraged to avoid this intersection and approach the Rice campus from the west side of campus, using Kirby or Greenbriar.

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