Houston Christian 42, at Rice 62

HOUSTON (Interstat) — In a game defined by defensive pressure and offensive struggles, the Rice women’s basketball team methodically dispatched crosstown opponent Houston Christian 62-42 on Saturday afternoon at Tudor Fieldhouse. The Owls, improving to 10-3, used a dominant rebounding performance and a series of timely scoring bursts to overcome their own shooting woes and pull away from the Huskies, who fell to 4-6. The game was never in serious doubt for the heavily favored Owls, who were projected with a 99.5 percent probability to win by Interstat’s ELO system. The most pivotal stretch of the contest arrived late in… Read more...