{"id":167888,"date":"2026-02-17T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167888\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:40:15","slug":"red-raiders-rise-to-no-13-in-newest-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167888\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raiders rise to No. 13 in newest AP poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After a 78-75 win at then-No. 1 Arizona, preceded by a dominant 78-44 win over Colorado, the Texas Tech Red Raiders (19-6, 9-3 Big 12) have moved up to No. 13 in the latest Associated Press ranking released Monday afternoon- three spots 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\">2. Houston (23-2, 11-1), 4. Arizona (23-2, 10-2) Tech has now beaten both schools, 6. Iowa State (22-3, 9-3), 8. Kansas (19-6, 9-3), and 23. BYU (19-6, 7-5).<\/p>\n<p>Michigan (24-1), 3. Duke (23-2), and 5. UConn (24-2) round out the top five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders return to the court Tuesday night for a late tip-off at Arizona State, 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 78-75 win at then-No. 1 Arizona, preceded by a dominant 78-44 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58694,557,68136,315,29904,55539,58948,29902,168,170,169,1769,8177,33227,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-167888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-ap-rankings","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-associated-press-polls","11":"tag-big-12","12":"tag-big-12-basketball","13":"tag-big-12-hoops","14":"tag-big-12-mens-basketball","15":"tag-college-hoops","16":"tag-lubbock","17":"tag-lubbock-headlines","18":"tag-lubbock-news","19":"tag-texas-tech","20":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","21":"tag-texas-tech-mens-basketball","22":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167888","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=167888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}