Despite its worse shooting night of the young season, Rice was able to distance itself late from a Florida A&M team looking for its first win and strike for a 75-59 win Tuesday in Tudor Fieldhouse.
The Owls improved to 4-0 with the win and the team is off to its best start since the 2004-05 squad began the year 6-0 en route to a 19-12 record an appearance in the NIT. FAMU is now 0-4.
Against Florida A&M, Rice shot 43 percent from the field and made just 59 percent of its free throws in the team’s second campus-site game of the South Padre Island Invitational. Both teams now head to the Island for the remaining games of the tournament. Rice plays Northern Iowa on Friday and takes on Iowa State on Saturday. Florida A&M will play Southern Friday afternoon as the tournament moves to the South Padre Island Convention Centre.
