{"id":139173,"date":"2026-01-27T00:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/139173\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T00:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:59:11","slug":"red-raiders-climb-to-no-11-in-new-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/139173\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raiders climb to No. 11 in new AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; While currently riding a five-game winning streak that includes Saturday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/01\/24\/live-no-12-texas-tech-vs-no-6-houston\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/01\/24\/live-no-12-texas-tech-vs-no-6-houston\/\">90-86 thriller over Houston<\/a>, the Texas Tech Red Raiders (16-4, 6-1) are now ranked No. 11 in the Associated Press ranking released Monday, one spot higher than from the previous week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">1. Arizona (20-0, 7-0), 8. Iowa State (18-2, 5-2), 10. Houston (17-2, 5-1), 13. BYU (17-2, 5-1), and 14. Kansas (15-5, 5-2). <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Coach Grant McCasland and the team are on a seven-day hiatus, before they return to action Saturday morning for a showdown with the UCF Knights (15-4, 4-3), and will look to avenge a 87-83 loss that took place last season on New Year\u2019s Eve. Tip-off scheduled for 11 a.m. CT at the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The rest of the top five includes:<\/p>\n<p>UCONN (19-1), 3. Michigan (18-1), 4. Duke (18-1), and 5. Nebraska (20-0).<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; While currently riding a five-game winning streak that includes Saturday\u2019s 90-86 thriller over Houston,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58800,58799,168,170,169,58798,27,12398],"class_list":["post-139173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-found-frozen-outside-store","tag-homeless-woman-found-frozen","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-store-manager-saves-homeless-woman","tag-texas","tag-winter-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139173","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=139173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}