http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-basebl/...sched.html

Season-opener vs. Stanford in Palo Alto, followed by a 6-game home stand (mid-weekers against Texas State and UH, followed by hosting Purdue the second weekend, and then SHS in a mid-weeker)...then Minute Maid (UT, TCU, Tech)...followed by the commencement of conference play with Old Dominion. Other highlights include: a second game against TCU at home on March 11th, a home and home against UT at Reckling on April Fools Day (!) and back in Austin the following week, and a home game against the Aggies on April 22nd. On the down side, this probably means we play road games at TCU and A&M in 2015.

27 home games
3 neutral site @ Minute Maid
23 road games

Longest road trip is 5 games.

18 games against projected Top 50 teams:
Stanford x 3
USM x 3
ECU x 3
UT x 3
TCU x 2
SHS x 2
A&M x 1
TTech x 1

(09-30-2013 02:19 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-basebl/...sched.html

Season-opener vs. Stanford in Palo Alto, followed by a 6-game home stand (mid-weekers against Texas State and UH, followed by hosting Purdue the second weekend, and then SHS in a mid-weeker)...then Minute Maid (UT, TCU, Tech)...followed by the commencement of conference play with Old Dominion. Other highlights include: a second game against TCU at home on March 11th, a home and home against UT at Reckling on April Fools Day (!) and back in Austin the following week, and a home game against the Aggies on April 22nd. On the down side, this probably means we play road games at TCU and A&M in 2015.

27 home games
3 neutral site @ Minute Maid
23 road games

Longest road trip is 5 games.

17 games against projected Top 50 teams:
Stanford x 3
USM x 3
ECU x 3
UT x 2
TCU x 2
SHS x 2
A&M x 1
TTech x 1

4 neutral site games. The 5/13 Silver Glove Series game is at Constellation Field in Sugar Land.

Pretty solid schedule. A ton of RPI building opportunities in the mid-week that we have to take advantage of. Not sure how strong the conference slate will be. FAU finished ahead of us in the RPI (#24), but I don't know what they bring back.

So ODU for baseball is a conference game? Are they conference games in any other sport for this academic year?

(09-30-2013 02:32 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  So ODU for baseball is a conference game? Are they conference games in any other sport for this academic year?

Yes, everything but football.

(09-30-2013 02:30 PM)d1owls4life Wrote:  

(09-30-2013 02:19 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-basebl/...sched.html

Season-opener vs. Stanford in Palo Alto, followed by a 6-game home stand (mid-weekers against Texas State and UH, followed by hosting Purdue the second weekend, and then SHS in a mid-weeker)...then Minute Maid (UT, TCU, Tech)...followed by the commencement of conference play with Old Dominion. Other highlights include: a second game against TCU at home on March 11th, a home and home against UT at Reckling on April Fools Day (!) and back in Austin the following week, and a home game against the Aggies on April 22nd. On the down side, this probably means we play road games at TCU and A&M in 2015.

27 home games
3 neutral site @ Minute Maid
23 road games

Longest road trip is 5 games.

17 games against projected Top 50 teams:
Stanford x 3
USM x 3
ECU x 3
UT x 2
TCU x 2
SHS x 2
A&M x 1
TTech x 1

4 neutral site games. The 5/13 Silver Glove Series game is at Constellation Field in Sugar Land.

Pretty solid schedule. A ton of RPI building opportunities in the mid-week that we have to take advantage of. Not sure how strong the conference slate will be. FAU finished ahead of us in the RPI (#24), but I don't know what they bring back.

Even with Purdue, our OOC slate will be as tough as anyone outside Cal State-Fullerton and possibly TCU. Stanford, UT and TCU are all likely Top 25 teams...with A&M, USM and ECU very close behind. Then there's SHS, Texas State and what should be an improved UH team. Much better schedule than last year. Possibly no sub-200 RPI team; whereas last year we played 4 weekend series against such teams, which really dragged down our RPI. We also didn't have TCU, UT or the Aggies to help it out.

The schedule looks great.

Riceowls.com is having a little trouble this afternoon. I'm tried refreshing my browser cache I'm still seeing the 2013 schedule.

Even funnier are the top headlines on the Baseball main page:


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(09-30-2013 02:50 PM)Baconator Wrote:  Riceowls.com is having a little trouble this afternoon. I'm tried refreshing my browser cache I'm still seeing the 2013 schedule.

Even funnier are the top headlines on the Baseball main page:

Click on the "season" box in the URH corner and select the 2013 - '14 season....or just click on the link I provided above.

(09-30-2013 02:50 PM)Baconator Wrote:  Riceowls.com is having a little trouble this afternoon. I'm tried refreshing my browser cache I'm still seeing the 2013 schedule.

Even funnier are the top headlines on the Baseball main page:

That was when they were doing the flashbacks for the ten year anniversary of the title.

I was having the same issue. Right above "next event", there is a drop down box that still is defaulted to select 2012-13. If you click on it, there is a 2013-14 option that will update the schedule accordingly.

One of the games against UH is at the Skeeters ballpark in Sugar Land. I like that idea.

Where is the conference tournament going to be?

I think I heard that the conference tournament will be in Hattiesburg.

(09-30-2013 03:20 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  One of the games against UH is at the Skeeters ballpark in Sugar Land. I like that idea.

Where is the conference tournament going to be?

Joseph Duarte ‏@Chronicle_Owls 10m
Conference USA baseball tournament to be held May 21-25 in Hattiesburg, Miss., league announced Thursday

rumors of a clean debt ceiling vote and Rice playing UT 3X's!! home and away no less - peace and compromise breaks out across the land?

(09-30-2013 03:20 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  One of the games against UH is at the Skeeters ballpark in Sugar Land. I like that idea.

I'm curious about the rationale for playing at the Skeeters ballpark. Money? Exposure? Neither Reckling nor UH's park sell out when Rice and UH meet. Reckling is a great place to watch a game and UH's park is OK. There is certainly more promotional work to be done in Rice's and UH's backyard to get more fans in the seats. I hope the Skeeters folks are really making it worth our while to play an important game there.

(10-11-2013 02:10 PM)Hardball Owl Wrote:  I'm curious about the rationale for playing at the Skeeters ballpark. Money? Exposure?

tapping new markets? the Fort Bend and Katy areas are huge and growing and a fair distance from both Reckling and UH.

EDIT: I wonder if Skeeters will promote the game to their ticket holders.

Trust me, while Reckling Park is wonderful, if you have young children, they will enjoy the Skeeters Park more. The only issue is they may want to spend the entire game in the playground area in the outfield (and also there's a splash area so you might want to bring them in a swimsuit and change of clothes), and depending on their age, you may be forced to camp out there and having a tough time watching the action on the field. I don't know if this is considered a home game for either team but it's quite possible this will be a record crowd if it is (I don't believe any MMP games have ever been considered home games).

(09-30-2013 02:19 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  On the down side, this probably means we play road games at TCU and A&M in 2015.

It is not a downside to me. It would be great to finally see Rice play in TCU's new park that opened in 2003.

(10-11-2013 10:00 PM)DFW Owl Wrote:  

(09-30-2013 02:19 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  On the down side, this probably means we play road games at TCU and A&M in 2015.

It is not a downside to me. It would be great to finally see Rice play in TCU's new park that opened in 2003.

Rice has played in TCU's new park when we played Air Force in last year's Armed Forces Bowl.

(10-11-2013 10:59 PM)MaronealOwl Wrote:  

(10-11-2013 10:00 PM)DFW Owl Wrote:  

(09-30-2013 02:19 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  On the down side, this probably means we play road games at TCU and A&M in 2015.

It is not a downside to me. It would be great to finally see Rice play in TCU's new park that opened in 2003.

Rice has played in TCU's new park when we played Air Force in last year's Armed Forces Bowl.

Never mind, I thought you meant football.