| Rice Owls | |
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 2024 Rice Owls baseball team | |
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| Founded | 1913 |
| University | Rice University |
| Head coach | José Cruz Jr. (3rd season) |
| Conference | The American |
| Location | Houston, Texas |
| Home stadium | Reckling Park (Capacity: 7,000) |
| Nickname | Owls |
| Colors | Blue and gray[1] |
| NCAA Tournament champions | |
| 2003 | |
| College World Series appearances | |
| 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 | |
| NCAA regional champions | |
| 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013 | |
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |
| 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 | |
| Conference tournament champions | |
| SWC: 1996 WAC: 1997, 1998, 1999 C-USA: 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017 | |
| Regular season conference champions | |
| WAC: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 C-USA: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 | |
The Rice Owls baseball team is the interscholastic baseball team representing Rice University in Houston, Texas, United States. The Owls have appeared often in the NCAA tournament since the tenure of head coach Wayne Graham began in 1992. The program participated in every tournament from 1995 until 2017, and won the national championship in 2003, the first national championship for Rice athletics in any team sport.
Rice is a member of the NCAA Division I American Athletic Conference. Previously, it has played in the now-defunct Southwest Conference, the Western Athletic Conference and Conference USA. From 1997–2008, Rice won 12 consecutive regular season titles in its conference or division. Nine of the championships came in the Western Athletic Conference, while the final three came in Conference USA. The streak ended in 2009 when East Carolina won the regular-season conference title; however, Rice won the post-season tournament. Rice subsequently won the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 regular-season C-USA titles.
Rice plays its home games at Reckling Park on the Rice campus in Houston. Rice is also a yearly participant in the Houston College Classic, held since 2001 at the Houston Astros' Minute Maid Park.
- ^ Rice Athletics Branding Guidelines, Rules, & Regulations (PDF). August 19, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2020.