{"id":138968,"date":"2026-01-26T22:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/138968\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:31:24","slug":"lady-raiders-now-no-21-in-new-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/138968\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Raiders now No. 21 in new AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After a week that included a 73-61 loss at BYU, followed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/01\/25\/no-19-lady-raiders-back-winning-track-with-77-49-win-utah\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/01\/25\/no-19-lady-raiders-back-winning-track-with-77-49-win-utah\/\">77-49 statement win at Utah<\/a>, the Texas Tech Lady Raiders (20-2, 7-2 Big 12) are now ranked No. 21 in the new Associated Press ranking released Monday morning. This is two spots down from their No. 19 spot held last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">12. TCU (19-2, 7-1), 14. Baylor (18-3, 7-1), and 22. West Virginia (17-4, 7-2). Oklahoma State (16-5, 5-3) is receiving votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lady Raiders return to the United Supermarkets Arena Wednesday evening, when they will host Iowa State. Tip-off scheduled for 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The top five teams include: 1. UCONN (21-0), 2. UCLA (19-1), 3. South Carolina (20-2), 4. Texas (19-2), and 5. Vanderbilt (20-1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After a week that included a 73-61 loss at BYU, followed by a 77-49&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58694,557,29905,315,29904,52572,2692,21868,168,170,169,1769,8177,27007,873,34112,14445],"class_list":{"0":"post-138968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-ap-rankings","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-associated-press-rankings","11":"tag-big-12","12":"tag-big-12-basketball","13":"tag-big-12-womens-college-basketball","14":"tag-college-basketball","15":"tag-lady-raiders","16":"tag-lubbock","17":"tag-lubbock-headlines","18":"tag-lubbock-news","19":"tag-texas-tech","20":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","21":"tag-texas-tech-lady-raiders","22":"tag-texas-tech-university","23":"tag-texas-tech-womens-basketball","24":"tag-womens-college-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138968","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=138968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}