HOUSTON -- Egor Koulechov scored 26 points and grabbed 15 rebounds as Rice used a big second-half to stop a two-game skid with a 101-79 rout of North Texas Saturday afternoon.
The Owls had lost two straight and three of their last four after falling in overtime to Alabama-Birmingham a week ago.
Koulechov, from Volgograd, Russia, entered the game as the second-leading scorer in Conference USA at just under 20 points per game and leads the nation in 3-point field goal percentage (54.4 percent). He hit 3 of 4 from deep against the Mean Green.