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4:35	ChronicleSports - Join Chron.com's live coverage of Rice versus UH at 8 p.m.

7:40

MK - Greetings, all. We're live here at The Hof for the 68th meeting between the Owls (7-14, 2-5 C-USA) and the Cougars (13-7, 4-3). Both teams are coming off confidence-building wins, with the Owls defeating visiting East Carolina a week ago to snap a four-game skid, and the Cougars looking to build on their 28-point beatdown of UCF in Orlando.

7:44

MK - UH guard Aubrey Coleman has posted consecutive 30-point games, and poses the biggest matchup problem for the Owls' suspect defense. Rice typically manages well against scoring guards, but Coleman plays with such a physicality that he is practically a frontcourt player. Cliff Ghoram would seem the likely candidate to draw Coleman given the wide range of opponents he's been asked to guard this season.

7:46

MK - Owls guard Rodney Foster has found a rhythm, averaging 12.2 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists over the previous four games to help offset the mystifying production dropoff of Cory Pflieger, who has strung together 10 consecutive games with single-digit scoring. If Pflieger continues to slump, expect freshman Connor Frizzelle to continue to increase his minutes.

7:47	MK - Starters: UH - Lewis; Nixon; Coleman; Calhoun; Cousin. Rice - Frizzelle; Stanton; Foster; Ghoram; Perka.

7:50

MK - The Owls always tapped their reservoir of intensity against UH under Willis Wilson, so tonight is the first litmus test for the Owls in this rivalry under Ben Braun. The Cougars are bigger, stronger, faster and more talented, but they've been that way for a couple years now. That hasn't kept the Owls from keeping things interesting before, and that's not reason for UH to blow the Owls out of the Hof tonight.

7:52	MK - And we won't mention how utterly strange it looks to see Wilson, who is sitting three seats to our left working the UH radio broadcast, in a red polo shirt. So not right ...

7:52	[Comment From Guest] is anyone going to this game

7:52	MK - So far, this is a late-arriving crowd. The place is far from full or rocking.

7:56	[Comment From Guest] Im not a Rice fan or Uh for thatt matter, but I always thought Wilson was a classy guy and coach and got a raw deal last year

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