{"id":121361,"date":"2026-01-13T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/121361\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:27:19","slug":"texas-tech-softball-enters-season-with-no-1-ranking-in-softball-america-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/121361\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech Softball enters season with No. 1 ranking in Softball America preseason poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Months after their meteoric rise to the final game of the Women\u2019s College World Series, the Texas Tech Red Raiders enter the season as the No. 1 team in the country-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/softball\/news\/softball-america-top-25-rankings-2026-preseason\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/softball\/news\/softball-america-top-25-rankings-2026-preseason\/\"> according to the Softball America 2026 Preseason Poll released Tuesday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Their WCWS finals counterpart- Texas stands at No. 2. Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Oregon- who all ended last season in Oklahoma City are ranked No. 3, 4, and 5 respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include: No. 17 Arizona and No. 19 Oklahoma State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Along with some key returning players- pitcher NiJaree Canady, infielders Lauren Allred and Makayla Garcia, and outfielder Alana Johnson- the program has also added catcher Jasmine Burns (Ohio State), infielder Mia Williams (Florida), pitcher Kaitlyn Terry (UCLA), and utility player Jasmine Lis (Southern Illinois)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Their campaign for OKC begins Thursday, Feb. 5 in Lake Charles, La., where they face the McNeese State Cowgirls. Their home opener will be Thursday, Feb. 26, when they host Abilene Christian at Rocky Johnson Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Months after their meteoric rise to the final game of the Women\u2019s College World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46014,52764,27,29,28,1769,415,873],"class_list":["post-121361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-softball","tag-softball-america","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121361","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=121361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}