{"id":900645,"date":"2026-09-21T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900645\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:48:10","slug":"mens-basketball-holds-first-practice-of-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900645\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Basketball Holds First Practice of 2026-27 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 The third season <a href=\"https:\/\/riceowls.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/rob-lanier\/3299\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"3299\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Lanier<\/a>\u00a0era began this afternoon as Rice held its first official basketball practice of the 2026-27 season in Tudor Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The Owls returns seven letterwinners from last year&#8217;s squad, while welcoming nine newcomers to the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I like about this group is that there is a competitive spirit that&#8217;s been pretty consistent day-to-day,&#8221; said head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/riceowls.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/rob-lanier\/3299\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"3299\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Lanier<\/a>. &#8220;I think that gives us a foundation for growth. We&#8217;ve been practicing. The first day of practice is different than it used to be. There is a foundation in place for us to really become a good team. We&#8217;ve got a long way to go, but I do like the group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rice begins the 2026-27 campaign on Nov. 2 when it hosts Dallas Christian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 The third season Rob Lanier\u00a0era began this afternoon as Rice held its first official basketball practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-900645","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\/900645","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=900645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}