{"id":158178,"date":"2026-02-10T08:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158178\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:56:15","slug":"red-raiders-now-no-16-in-new-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158178\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raiders now No. 16 in new AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; One week after losing to Kansas 64-61 at home, followed by a 70-63 win at West Virginia, the Texas Tech Red Raiders (17-6, 7-3 Big 12) are now ranked No. 16 in the newest Associated Press poll- three spots down from last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p>Arizona (23-0, 10-0), who will host Tech on Saturday, 3. Houston (21-2, 9-1), 5. Iowa State (21-2, 9-1), 9. Kansas (18-5, 8-2), and 22. BYU (17-6, 5-5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders return to the USA Wednesday for a rematch with Colorado, a team they beat 73-71 earlier this month in Boulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The rest of the top five includes:<\/p>\n<p>Michigan (22-1), 4. Duke (21-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This season, Tech has already posted wins against No. 3 Houston and No. 4 Duke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; One week after losing to Kansas 64-61 at home, followed by a 70-63 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[557,315,29904,58948,2692,29902,168,170,169,4862,49638,1769,8177,33227,415,873],"class_list":["post-158178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-associated-press","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-basketball","tag-big-12-mens-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-hoops","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-mens-college-hoops","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-basketball","tag-texas-tech-mens-basketball","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158178","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=158178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}