Rice University

• Location: Houston, TX
• Nickname: Owls
• Conference: American Athletic Conference 2024- ; Conference USA 2006-2023; Western Athletic Conference 1997-2005; Southwest Conference -1996
• Ballpark: Reckling Park

College World Series Appearances: 7 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 & 2008

College World Series title in 2003.

Players who went here

Lance Berkman, Pete Runnels and Jose Cruz are three prominent major league players who went to Rice University.

Rice Pitchers Philip Humber, Jeffrey Niemann, and Wade Townsend were all selected in the first eight picks of the 2004 amateur draft. All three suffered arm injuries within three years.

In a bizarre development, Rice University was the owner of Yankee Stadium for a spell. This happened in 1962 when John Cox, who was a 1927 Rice graduate and had become the owner of the Yankee Stadium Corporation in 1955, turned over the shares to his alma mater as an income-generating grant. So Rice, owned the building, although the Knights of Columbus owned the land on which it was built, to make the arrangement even stranger. The stadium was not properly maintained during that period - not too surprisingly - and in 1971 it was bought by the City of New York through eminent domain, and given a thorough restoration in 1974 and 1975.

Coaches

• Phillip Arbuckle, 1913-1917
• Jack Coombs, 1918
• Leslie Mann, 1920
• Pete Cawthon, 1921
• Bob Countryman, 1922-1923
• Michael O'Neill, 1924
• Joe Bedenk, 1925-1927
• Dickie Kerr, 1928
• Charley Schwartz, 1928
• Gene Bailey, 1929
• Danny Allnoch, 1930
• John Neimic, 1931-1932
• Cecil Grigg, 1936-44, 1946-47
• Jess Neely, 1945, 1948
• Harold Stockbridge, 1949-52
• Dell Morgan, 1953-61
• Joe Gallagher, 1962
• Doug Osburn, 1963-80
• David Hall, 1981-1991
• Wayne Graham, 1992-2018
• Matt Bragga, 2019-2021
• Jose Cruz, 2022-present

Assistant Coaches

• Paul Janish, 2018-
• David Pierce, 2003-2011
• Clay Van Hook, 2012-2017?

Year-by-Year Record

Year	Overall Record	Conference Record	Post Season
1913	3-3
1914	8-8-1	1-2-1
1915	5-13	3-11
1916	4-16	2-9
1917	8-5-1	3-4-1
1918	6-8	0-2
1920	4-13	1-10
1921	3-9	3-8
1922	2-5	1-5
1923	4-9	3-7
1924	4-12	3-11
1925	8-6	6-6
1926	8-7	5-6
1927	7-15	6-14
1928	8-15	6-14
1929	9-15	7-13
1930	6-16	5-13
1931	4-8	3-7
1932	9-9	9-5
1936	9-15-2	5-9
1937	3-12	3-12
1938	10-17	1-14
1939	7-18-1	4-11
1940	3-15	3-11
1941	7-8	5-8
1942	5-10-1	5-9
1943	2-13	0-8
1944	2-10
1945	7-6-1	6-5
1946	7-10-1	6-9
1947	5-11	4-10
1948	6-20	3-11
1949	4-14	3-11
1950	9-12	2-11
1951	8-13	3-12
1952	12-13	5-10
1953	5-16	3-11
1954	5-19	2-12
1955	8-15	5-10
1956	11-13	6-9
1957	9-12	5-10
1958	12-9-1	8-6
1959	14-10	7-7
1960	17-8	10-5
1961	13-11	6-6
1962	10-12	4-9
1963	9-17	2-11
1964	7-17	3-12
1965	10-15	5-10
1966	14-11	5-10
1967	17-10	5-10
1968	10-15	6-12
1969	14-11	7-6
1970	18-11	10-7
1971	9-20	3-14
1972	19-12	11-7
1973	16-14	6-10
1974	24-18	12-11
1975	19-16	11-13
1976	17-22	10-14
1977	15-26	7-15
1978	18-29	6-18
1979	20-29	5-19
1980	14-29	8-16
1981	34-23	11-10	SWC
1982	34-23	8-13
1983	36-16	11-10	SWC
1984	41-14	13-8	SWC
1985	27-21	5-15
1986	34-26	5-16
1987	23-23	5-16
1988	31-28	6-15
1989	28-30	4-17
1990	33-29	11-9	SWC
1991	16-34	6-15
1992	29-26	15-21
1993	36-18	7-11
1994	34-21	12-6	SWC
1995	43-19	15-9	SWC / CWS Regionals
1996	42-23	9-15	SWC / CWS Regionals
1997	47-16	20-9	WAC / CWS Regionals / CWS
1998	46-17	26-4	WAC / CWS Regionals
1999	59-15	25-5	WAC / CWS Regionals / CWS Super Regionals / CWS
2000	43-23	19-11	CWS Regionals
2001	47-20	26-10	CWS Regionals / CWS Super Regionals
2002	52-14	28-2	CWS Regionals / CWS Super Regionals / CWS
2003	58-12	25-5	CWS Regionals / CWS Super Regionals / CWS
2004	46-14	24-6	CWS Regionals
2005	45-19	21-9	CWS Regionals / CWS Super Regionals
2006	57-13	22-2	C-USA / CWS Regionals / CWS Super Regionals / CWS
2007	56-14	22-2	C-USA / CWS Regionals / CWS Super Regionals / CWS
2008	47-15	21-3	C-USA / CWS Regionals / CWS Super Regionals / CWS
2009	43-18	17-7	C-USA / CWS Regionals / CWS Super Regionals
2010	40-23	17-7	C-USA / CWS Regionals
2011	42-21	16-8	C-USA / CWS Regionals
2012	41-19	17-7	C-USA / CWS Regionals
2013	44-20	15-9	C-USA / CWS Regionals / CWS Super Regionals
2014	42-20	23-7	C-USA / CWS Regionals
2015	37-22	22-8	C-USA / CWS Regionals
2016	38-24	19-10	C-USA / CWS Regionals
2017	33-31	16-14	C-USA / CWS Regionals
2018	26-31-2	12-15-2	C-USA
2019	26-33	14-16	C-USA
2020	2-14	0-0
2021	23-29-1	11-20-1
2022	17-39	9-21
2023	21-37	9-21	C-USA
2024	23-36	11-16	American