{"id":111940,"date":"2026-01-05T23:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111940\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:17:18","slug":"unbeaten-lady-raiders-now-no-17-in-new-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111940\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbeaten Lady Raiders now No. 17 in new AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; With the Texas Tech Lady Raiders (16-0, 3-0 Big 12) off to their best start in program history, the team has now climbed to No. 17 in the new Associated Press poll released Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No. 11 Iowa State (14-1), No. 13 TCU (14-1), and No. 16 Baylor (13-3), <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Krista Gerlich\u2019s squad has opened Big 12 play with wins over Baylor (61-60 on the road), UCF (73-55 on New Year\u2019s Eve), and Arizona (80-49). Up next for the ladies is a trip to Morganton, W.V. for a matchup with 13-2 West Virginia who is currently unranked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; With the Texas Tech Lady Raiders (16-0, 3-0 Big 12) off to their best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[557,315,29904,49632,2692,168,170,169,1769,8177,27007,873,14445,15715],"class_list":["post-111940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-associated-press","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-basketball","tag-big-12-womens-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-basketball","tag-texas-tech-lady-raiders","tag-texas-tech-university","tag-womens-college-basketball","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111940","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=111940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}