{"id":111956,"date":"2026-01-05T23:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111956\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:29:17","slug":"texas-tech-men-now-no-14-in-new-ap-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111956\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech men now No. 14 in new AP ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After returning from Christmas break with wins over Winthrop (87-57), and Oklahoma State (102-60), the Texas Tech Red Raiders (11-3, 1-0 Big 12) have climbed up one spot from No. 15 in the new Associated Press Poll announced Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No. 1 Arizona (14-0), No. 3 Iowa State (14-0), No. 7 Houston (13-1), No. 9 BYU (13-1) No. 22 Kansas (10-4), and No. 25 UCF (12-1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders have another marquee matchup as they face Houston Tuesday night. Tip-off set for 8 p.m. at the Fertitta Center, and the game will be broadcast on FS1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After returning from Christmas break with wins over Winthrop (87-57), and Oklahoma State (102-60),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[29905,315,29904,2692,29902,168,170,169,49638,8177,33227,415,873],"class_list":{"0":"post-111956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-associated-press-rankings","9":"tag-big-12","10":"tag-big-12-basketball","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-college-hoops","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news","16":"tag-mens-college-hoops","17":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","18":"tag-texas-tech-mens-basketball","19":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","20":"tag-texas-tech-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111956","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=111956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}