{"id":157651,"date":"2026-02-10T00:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/157651\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:47:13","slug":"lady-raiders-move-up-to-no-16-in-new-ap-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/157651\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Raiders move up to No. 16 in new AP ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; With last week\u2019s 62-60 win over then-No. 12 TCU and Saturday\u2019s 85-61 blowout win at Houston, the Texas Tech Lady Raiders (22-3, 9-3 Big 12) have climbed to No. 16 in the new Associated Press ranking released Monday morning- two spots higher from the previous week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No. 12 Baylor (21-4, 10-2), No. 17 TCU (21-4, 9-3), No. 19 West Virginia (20-5, 10-3). It is worth noting the Lady Raiders have posted wins over all three teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa State (19-5, 7-5) is also receiving votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lady Raiders return to the USA Tuesday evening and will host the Kansas Jayhawks. Tipoff set for 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The top five include:<\/p>\n<p>UConn (25-0), 2. UCLA (23-1), 3. South Carolina (24-2), 4. Texas (22-2), and 5. Vanderbilt (22-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; With last week\u2019s 62-60 win over then-No. 12 TCU and Saturday\u2019s 85-61 blowout win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,55539,49632,61795,2692,168,170,169,1769,8177,27007,873,34112,14445],"class_list":{"0":"post-157651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-big-12","9":"tag-big-12-hoops","10":"tag-big-12-womens-basketball","11":"tag-big-12-womens-hoops","12":"tag-college-basketball","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news","16":"tag-texas-tech","17":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","18":"tag-texas-tech-lady-raiders","19":"tag-texas-tech-university","20":"tag-texas-tech-womens-basketball","21":"tag-womens-college-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157651","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=157651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}