{"id":124091,"date":"2026-01-15T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124091\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:54:07","slug":"no-15-texas-tech-surges-past-utah-88-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124091\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 15 Texas Tech surges past Utah 88-74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The veteran tandem of JT Toppin and Christian Anderson was far too much for Utah, as the No. 15 Texas Tech Red Raiders (13-4, 3-1 Big 12) topped the Utes 88-74 Wednesday night at the USA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Together, the pair combined for 57 points. Toppin posted a double-double performance with 31 points and 13 rebounds. Anderson had 26 points, 18 from behind the three-point line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders trailed for 26 seconds midway in the first half until Tech retook the lead with a jumper from Toppin. From there, they went on a 55-36 run as they pulled away for the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tech expects a sellout crowd Saturday evening as they return to the USA to host No. 11 BYU. Tip-off scheduled for 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The veteran tandem of JT Toppin and Christian Anderson was far too much for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,29904,2692,4862,27,29,28,8177,415,873,53748,2188,53747,780],"class_list":["post-124091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech-basketball","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech-university","tag-university-of-utah","tag-utah","tag-utah-basketball","tag-utah-utes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124091","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=124091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}