{"id":100454,"date":"2025-12-25T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/100454\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:24:15","slug":"lubbock-takes-a-loss-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/100454\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Takes a Loss + How To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/lubbock\/lubbock-westerners\/basketball\/girls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lubbock<\/a> managed to slip by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/lubbock\/lubbock-cooper-pirates\/basketball\/girls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lubbock-Cooper<\/a> the last time these teams faced off, but didn&#8217;t have those same answers this time around. The Westerners were beaten by the Pirates 75-34 on Tuesday. The Westerners were in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at  38-17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> When it comes to explaining why Lubbock lost, don&#8217;t look at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/lubbock\/lubbock-westerners\/athletes\/alexis-lopez\/?careerid=tkckk17aadj00\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Alexis Lopez<\/a>. Despite the final result, she  went 6-for-13  on her way to 13  points and four  steals. Lopez continues to improve, besting her previous  point total in each of the last three games she&#8217;s  played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">Lubbock has  been struggling recently as they&#8217;ve  lost six of their last seven games. That&#8217;s put a noticeable dent in their 3-16 record  this season. As for Lubbock-Cooper, the  win (which was their third in a row) raised their record to 11-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Lubbock and Lubbock-Cooper could both be facing uphill battles in their next games considering their disadvantage  in the MaxPreps Texas Rankings. The Westerners (ranked 957th) will meet New Home (ranked 131st)  at 3:00  p.m.  on Monday. Meanwhile,  Lubbock-Cooper will  square off against  Tascosa  at 4:00  p.m.  on January 2, 2026 with a big rank  disadvantage  (113 vs. 8).<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lubbock managed to slip by Lubbock-Cooper the last time these teams faced off, but didn&#8217;t have those same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-100454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}