{"id":111493,"date":"2026-01-05T16:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111493\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:55:28","slug":"highlights-texas-tech-basketball-opens-the-new-year-with-dominating-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111493\/","title":{"rendered":"HIGHLIGHTS: Texas Tech Basketball opens the new year with dominating wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas (KMID\/KPEJ) \u2013 The Texas Tech basketball team opened the new year at home in United Supermarkets Arena, with dominating wins against Oklahoma State and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with the No. 15 Red Raiders, they dominated the Cowboys 102-80 to open up conference play. Forward JT Toppin was the difference maker, as he had 23 points and 14 boards on the day. They improve to 11-3 on the season, and they face No. 8 Houston on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For the No. 21 Lady Raiders, they dominated the Wildcats 80-49, remaining undefeated on the season. Senior Denae Fritz had a solid showing, as she had 16 points while going 6-for-10 from the field. Head coach Krista Gerlich and the Lady Raiders hit the road on Wednesday to face the West Virginia Mountainers.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above for the highlights and hear what men\u2019s head coach Grant McCasland had to say postgame.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourbasin.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to Yourbasin.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to Yourbasin. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KMID\/KPEJ) \u2013 The Texas Tech basketball team opened the new year at home in United Supermarkets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21868,168,170,169,544,27,8177,35938],"class_list":{"0":"post-111493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lady-raiders","9":"tag-lubbock","10":"tag-lubbock-headlines","11":"tag-lubbock-news","12":"tag-oklahoma-state","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","15":"tag-united-supermarkets-arena"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111493","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=111493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}