{"id":167719,"date":"2026-02-17T04:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167719\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:49:28","slug":"jt-toppin-named-big-12-player-of-the-week-fourth-time-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167719\/","title":{"rendered":"JT Toppin named \u201cBig 12 Player of the Week\u201d fourth time this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After a 31-point, 13-rebound performance in a 78-75 overtime win Saturday at then- No. 1 Arizona, Texas Tech forward JT Toppin is once again named the \u201cBig 12 Player of the Week\u201d- his fourth time to earn the honor since the start of conference play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This weekend, Toppin became the first to post 30+ points and 10+ rebounds against the No. 1 team in the Associated Press since Luke Maye of North Carolina did so against Duke in 2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During Wednesday\u2019s night game against Colorado, the Dallas-native registered 16 points, but posted a season-high 18 rebounds in the 78-44 win. Days later at the McKale Center, Toppin took control in overtime and added on eight more points as the Red Raiders held on for the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No. 13 Texas Tech is staying in the Grand Canyon State and will face Arizona State Tuesday night. Tip-off scheduled for 10 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After a 31-point, 13-rebound performance in a 78-75 overtime win Saturday at then- No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,29904,68048,14855,168,170,169,1769,8177,58952,33227],"class_list":{"0":"post-167719","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-basketball","10":"tag-big-12-player-of-the-week","11":"tag-jt-toppin","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-texas-tech","16":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","17":"tag-texas-tech-hoops","18":"tag-texas-tech-mens-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167719","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=167719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}