{"id":165309,"date":"2026-02-15T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165309\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T02:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:50:07","slug":"jt-toppin-texas-tech-stun-no-1-arizona-as-red-raiders-add-to-impressive-2026-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165309\/","title":{"rendered":"JT Toppin, Texas Tech stun No. 1 Arizona as Red Raiders add to impressive 2026 r\u00e9sum\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 JT Toppin scored eight of his 31 points in a dominant overtime performance and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\">No. 16 Texas Tech<\/a> sent No. 1 Arizona to its second straight loss, shocking the Wildcats 78-75 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Texas Tech (19-6, 9-3 Big 12) beat the No. 1 team for the third time in school history. The Wildcats (23-2, 10-2) were 23-0 before losing to No. 9 Kansas 82-78 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Arizona had a 64-57 lead with 3:29 left in regulation, but Texas Tech responded with 9-0 run, capped by Donovan Atwell\u2019s corner 3-pointer with 25 seconds left for a 66-64 lead. Arizona\u2019s Ivan Kharchenkov tied it at 66 with two free throws and Christian Anderson couldn\u2019t hit a contested jumper as time expired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">After the short break, Toppin went to work, scoring four baskets on an array of tip-ins and low-post moves. The preseason All-America selection shot 13 of 22 from the field and had 13 rebounds to finish with his 47th career double-double. Anderson added 19 points, hitting six 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Arizona\u2019s Tobe Awaka had 16 points and 12 rebounds. Freshman Brayden Burries also scored 16.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Texas Tech: At Arizona State on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Arizona: Hosts BYU on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Texas Tech coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 JT Toppin scored eight of his 31 points in a dominant overtime performance and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[732,3688,1401,42435,154,27,29,28,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-165309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-faith-family-school","11":"tag-grant-mccasland","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-headlines","15":"tag-texas-news","16":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165309","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=165309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}