{"id":483123,"date":"2026-11-01T11:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/483123\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:54:47","slug":"rice-hosts-houston-christian-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/483123\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice hosts Houston Christian in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Houston Christian Huskies at Rice Owls<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Houston; Monday, 9:25 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Rice starts the season at home against Houston Christian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Rice finished 29-6 overall with a 15-1 record at home during the 2025-26 season. The Owls averaged 7.4 steals, 3.5 blocks and 12.9 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Houston Christian finished 6-16 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/southland\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southland<\/a> games and 3-13 on the road last season. The Huskies averaged 12.0 assists per game on 21.4 made field goals last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Houston Christian Huskies at Rice Owls Houston; Monday, 9:25 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Rice starts the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[261,64550,56,58,57,67391],"class_list":["post-483123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-college-football","tag-event_preview","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-southland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}