This Saturday, both teams will be competing at the Rim Rock Classic hosted by Kansas.

The men's 8K race is scheduled for 9:00 a.m., with the women's 6K race to follow at 10:00 a.m.

Rice women, in spite of their victory last weekend, dropped from #3 to #4 in the latest NCAA South Central poll, due to the impressive effort by SMU at Virginia. At that race, SMU was 2nd, ahead of two ranked teams, Virginia and Syracuse. As a result, SMU jumped to #21 in the national poll.

Women's South Central Poll (September 26, 2016)

1. Arkansas [#10 Nationally]
2. SMU [#21 Nationally]
3. Texas
4. RICE
5. Baylor
6. Texas A&M
7. Stephen F. Austin
8. Tulane
9. North Texas
10. TCU

Rice won't have much of a chance to impress voters, in that the Kansas field is weak in comparison to a strong field at Notre Dame. Host Kansas (#2 in the Midwest Region) and Indiana (#8 in the Great Lakes Region) will be the toughest teams.

Rice men did not race last weekend, but still moved up one spot to #12 in the latest South Central poll.

Men's South Central Poll (September 26, 2016)

1. Arkansas [#5 (tie) Nationally]
2. Texas [#30 (tie) Nationally]
3. Texas A&M
4. Baylor
5. UT Arlington
6. Lamar
7. North Texas
8. Stephen F. Austin
9. Texas State
10. McNeese State
11. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
12. RICE

Results from Kansas will be HERE about 30 minutes after the races.

At the Notre Dame Invitational today, Baylor's women had a very good race, finishing 5th overall in a strong field. They defeated, among others, Notre Dame (3rd in the Great Lakes Region), Mississippi (4th in the Southeast Region) and Utah (4th in the Mountain Region).

Texas had a horrendous race, as they ended up in 16th place. They were without their ace runner, Sandie Raines, but even with her, they likely would have been no higher than 13th.

UTEP was 2nd in the men's race. They are prohibitive favorites to win C-USA.

Men's 8K

1. Indiana 23
2. Kansas 42
3. Rice 98
4. Bacone 110
5. Washburn 144
6. Central Missouri 148
7. Oral Roberts 192

Rice runners:

20. Marco Ruiz 25:15.7
30. Imran Bell 25:38.7
31. Adolfo Carvalho 25:38.8
32. Matt Calem 25:40.4
45. Griffin Lee 26:31.7
57. William Roberts 27:05.6
60. Clay Musial 27:11.4

Women

1 Indiana 36
2 Rice 45
3 Kansas 46
4 Central Missouri 132
5 Oral Roberts 160
6 Southeastern Oklahoma 179
7 Washburn 205
8 Rockhurst 211
9 Bacone 264

1 Abigail Cartwright 20:28.7
3 Katie Jensen 20:29.4
5 Cali Roper 21:05.9
18 Elsa Racasan 22:02.1
22 Khayla Patel 22:16.4
28 Hannah Kay 22:44.0
31 Anna Figuerora 22:52.0
35 Abby Halm 23:16.7
37 Fabiola Andujar-Perez 23:25.6
43 Ellen Diemert 24:04.2
48 Lucrecia Aguilar 24:29.8