| Rice's D1 baseball is HUGE, I don't know what you're talking about. In D1 baseball, the Rice baseball team won the 2003 College World Series, defeating Stanford two games to one in the championship series, including a 14-2 rout in the final game. Because of the academic quality of the two finalists, the championship series earned nicknames such as the "RBIs and SATs Series." The victory made Rice University the smallest school in 51 years to win a national championship at the highest collegiate level of the sport. More recently, Rice's baseball team has finished third in both the 2006 and 2007 College World Series tournaments.
Just as Duke is known for basketball, Rice is known for baseball.
And Rice's football is kind of pathetic (2nd to smallest school in the D1 division), definitely not anything to boast about, but it brings out a huge showing from Rice's students--lots of school spirit. Rice Stadium, where they play, can seat 70,000 people (which, obviously, is much bigger than the student body, lol).
WUSTL does very well in D3 sports, I believe they recently won D3 championships in women's volleyball and/or basketball? Something like that; but their students don't really care about sports, other than probably other fellow jocks. | 
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