University of Houston Athletics
Women's Basketball Opens 2007 With Arch Rival Rice
1/1/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Jan. 1, 2007
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Houston Opens 2007 With Arch Rival Rice ...
• After playing four games in six days, the University of Houston women's basketball squad has had an 11-day layoff to prepare for its return to Conference USA play on Jan. 2 at 7 p.m. CST in Hofheinz Pavilion against arch-rival Rice.
• UH was supposed to travel to Colorado on Dec. 30, but did not do so due to weather in the Denver area. No makeup has been announced.
• The two squads will play twice in the less than three weeks with a nationally-televised return game at Autry Court on Jan. 21. Houston took two of three from the Owls last season and own a 38-6 all-time series lead.
• UH finished with a losing record out of Conference USA play for the second-straight year, only the second time in program history that has happened.
• Houston has lost two of three but have earned its only three wins of the year in the last five games. UH's seven-day holiday layoff is the teams' second-longest of the season, with only a nine-day layoff (Jan. 11-20) between the ECU and Rice games longer.
• Rice enters with a 7-6 record, losers of three in-a-row. The Owls are 2-3 on the road this season and their last win at Hofheinz Pavilion was on Jan. 10, 1995.
• The Cougars will more than likely stick to the starting five of the past two games, Alona Obaze (5-5/G), Tye Jackson (5-10/G), Whitney James (5-11/F), Sunshine Misa-Uli (5-11/F) and Ryan Bradley (6-2/C).
• Rice will likely counter with Kadie Riverin (5-9/G), Samantha Stovall (6-0/F), Valeria Berezhynska (6-4/C), Emery Carter (6-1/F) and Krystal Frazier (5-8/G).
Free Internet Audio Stream Available To All Fans ...
• Courtesy of ISP Sports and Yahoo.com, all University of Houston women's basketball games will be available live via the internet at no cost to the Cougar faithful.
• Simply log onto www.UHCougars.com, go to the women's basketball schedule and click the audio link next to each game on the schedule to listen for free.
• Jeremy Branham returns for his second season as the play-by-play voice of the Cougars. Louis Ray will join him as a color commentator for home games at Hofheinz Pavilion.
