Friday, May 2
College Station, Texas
10 AM
Rice University
vs
UC Santa Barbara
Third-Seeded Owls Open College Station Regional With Second-Seeded UCSB
5/1/2025 5:18:00 PM | Women's Tennis
Match 24 | #39/No. 3 Seed Rice Owls (17-6) vs. #32/No. 2 Seed UC Santa Barbara (16-8) | Friday, May 2 | 10 AM CT
Location: College Station, Texas (Mitchell Tennis Center)
Video Stream: Track Tennis
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Series: Rice leads, 2-1
Last Meeting: Rice won, 6-0 (April 15, 2000)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The 39th-ranked Rice Owls women's tennis team opens play in the College Station Regional as the three seed, facing off against 32nd-ranked and second-seeded UC Santa Barbara from the Mitchell Tennis Center. The match has been moved up to a 10 a.m. start.
Rice enters with a 17-6 record, bowing out of the semifinals in the American Athletic Conference Championship by a score of 4-2 to the host Memphis Tigers. The Owls earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament thanks to an impressive record and top-40 ITA ranking.
UCSB enters with a 16-8 record, taking down Long Beach State and Cal Poly in the Big West Championship to win its third Big West title in five years.
Rice is 2-1 all-time against the Gauchos, but the two have only met once since the turn of the millennia. The last meeting was a neutral-site match in Fort Worth, a 6-0 win for the Owls. All matches in this series have been neutral site matches.
The winner of this match will move on to face the winner of the Texas A&M vs. Quinnipiac match slated for 1 p.m. on Friday. The final women's match of the regional is slated for 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Fans can keep up with the action from the College Station Regional using the links above. All matches will be broadcast via Track Tennis, while live stats will be available for every match through StatBroadcast.
Location: College Station, Texas (Mitchell Tennis Center)
Video Stream: Track Tennis
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Series: Rice leads, 2-1
Last Meeting: Rice won, 6-0 (April 15, 2000)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The 39th-ranked Rice Owls women's tennis team opens play in the College Station Regional as the three seed, facing off against 32nd-ranked and second-seeded UC Santa Barbara from the Mitchell Tennis Center. The match has been moved up to a 10 a.m. start.
Rice enters with a 17-6 record, bowing out of the semifinals in the American Athletic Conference Championship by a score of 4-2 to the host Memphis Tigers. The Owls earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament thanks to an impressive record and top-40 ITA ranking.
UCSB enters with a 16-8 record, taking down Long Beach State and Cal Poly in the Big West Championship to win its third Big West title in five years.
Rice is 2-1 all-time against the Gauchos, but the two have only met once since the turn of the millennia. The last meeting was a neutral-site match in Fort Worth, a 6-0 win for the Owls. All matches in this series have been neutral site matches.
The winner of this match will move on to face the winner of the Texas A&M vs. Quinnipiac match slated for 1 p.m. on Friday. The final women's match of the regional is slated for 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Fans can keep up with the action from the College Station Regional using the links above. All matches will be broadcast via Track Tennis, while live stats will be available for every match through StatBroadcast.
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