{"id":129400,"date":"2026-01-19T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129400\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:39:11","slug":"texas-tech-men-climb-to-no-12-in-new-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129400\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech men climb to No. 12 in new AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After a statement week that included two wins at home- 88-74 over Utah, and 84-71 win over then- No. 11 BYU, the Texas Tech Red Raiders (14-4, 4-1) are now ranked No. 12 in the new Associated Press ranking released Monday, three spots higher than from the previous week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include: <\/p>\n<p>Arizona (18-0, 5-0), 6. Houston (17-1, 5-0), 9. Iowa State (16-2, 4-1) 13. BYU (16-2, 4-1), and 19. Kansas (13-5, 3-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UCF (14-3, 3-2) is also receiving votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders will seek out their fourth-straight win Tuesday night in Waco, where they will take on the Baylor Bears (11-6, 1-4). Tip-off slated for 8 p.m. at Foster Pavilion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">From there, they return to Lubbock for a rematch with the Houston Cougars. A win would avenge their one loss in conference play. ESPN\u2019s College GameDay will be in town for the matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After a statement week that included two wins at home- 88-74 over Utah, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[557,315,29904,55539,55540,2692,4862,27,29,28,8177,33227,415],"class_list":["post-129400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-associated-press","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-basketball","tag-big-12-hoops","tag-big-12-mens-hoops","tag-college-basketball","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech-basketball","tag-texas-tech-mens-basketball","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129400","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=129400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129400\/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=129400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}