{"id":120600,"date":"2026-01-13T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120600\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:15:12","slug":"red-raiders-now-no-15-in-new-ap-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120600\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raiders now No. 15 in new AP ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After a 69-65 loss at Houston and a 73-71 cliffhanger win at Colorado, the Texas Tech Red Raiders (12-4, 2-1 Big 12) are now No. 15 in the new Associated Press poll released Monday. This ranking is one spot down from last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p>Arizona (16-0, 3-0), 2. Iowa State (16-0, 3-0), 7. Houston (15-1, 3-0), and 11. BYU (15-1, 3-0).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kansas (11-5, 1-2) and UCF (13-2, 2-1) are receiving votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders return to the United Supermarkets Arena Wednesday night and will host the Utah Utes. Tip off 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After a 69-65 loss at Houston and a 73-71 cliffhanger win at Colorado, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[557,315,29904,52548,2692,168,170,169,4862,1769,8177,415],"class_list":["post-120600","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-mens-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-basketball","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120600","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=120600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}