{"id":38133,"date":"2025-08-01T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38133\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:59:14","slug":"edmonds-announces-2025-26-non-conference-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38133\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonds Announces 2025-26 Non-Conference Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2013 Shelley Pennington and Friends Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/riceowls.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/lindsay-edmonds\/2968\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2968\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay Edmonds<\/a> announced the non-conference schedule for the upcoming 2025-26 Rice women&#8217;s basketball season, including games against seven postseason teams from last season and a pair of Power-4 opponents.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;I am happy to announce our non-conference schedule for the 2025-26 season,&#8221; Edmonds said. &#8220;We are looking forward to competing against two Power-4 schools along with many highly competitive mid-major programs, seven of which made it to postseason play this past year, with three having won conference championships.\u00a0 I am excited to see not only where we stack up against those teams, but also for the opportunity to blend our six newcomers with our nine returning student-athletes.\u00a0We know how tough American Conference play will be, and this non-conference slate will position us to compete against every opponent we face.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRice will host the University of Mary Hardin Baylor for an exhibition game on Oct. 28, before opening the 2024-25 campaign on the road against the reigning Summit League champion and NCAA Tournament team, South Dakota State, on Nov. 7.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Owls then head crosstown to square off against Houston on Nov. 11 before the home opener against former conference foe Middle Tennessee on Nov. 15.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRice will then travel north to face another NCAA Tournament team from last season against Princeton on Nov. 19, before returning home to play Incarnate Word on Nov. 23.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA trip to Puerto Rico will follow during Thanksgiving week against Illinois State, Morgan State and UCF.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA three-game homestand will open on Dec. 3 against Sam Houston before games against the regular-season Mountain West champion UNLV on Dec. 6 and a WNIT participant last season, UT-Arlington, on Dec. 12.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Owls will head to Grambling State on Dec. 17 before the non-conference finale against Houston Christian on Dec. 20.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe American announced conference opponents last week, with the full schedule to be released at a later time.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTicketing information will be released at a later time.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Shelley Pennington and Friends Head Coach Lindsay Edmonds announced the non-conference schedule for the upcoming 2025-26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-38133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}