[1] In his first season, Rice led Boise State to the finals of the WAC tournament and to the semifinals of the College Basketball Invitational.

In 2015, he led the Broncos to their only Mountain West regular season championship, Boise State's first conference title since 2008, and was named the MWC coach of the year.

According to Few, Rice occasionally created stories about what opposing student sections were saying about Gonzaga star Adam Morrison in order to pump him up prior to games.

Conference tournament champion Born in Richland, Washington, Rice graduated from Columbia Basin College, a junior college where he played football,[5] followed by Washington State University in Pullman in 1986 with a degree in physical education.

The eldest, Brock, completed his freshman basketball season at Northwest Christian University, where he averaged 5.1 points off the bench for the Bearcats.