Deep shots shall be hoisted and possessions look to be gobbled up faster than you can say "Allez cuisine."
After eight years under Ben Braun, the Owls made a change last year and brought in Mike Rhoades, a fiery sapling off the Shaka Smart coaching tree. Although Uncle Ben's program showed a brief resurgence, it was evident that his Rice teams would take a lot longer than five minutes before they were competitive again.
Whereas Coach Braun directed a slow simmer of an attack like congealing congee set to the somnambulant cadence of "Goodnight Moon," Coach Rhoades promptly declared,
"We want to play fast, we want to go after people.