{"id":167900,"date":"2026-02-17T07:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167900\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:53:16","slug":"lady-raiders-ranked-no-20-in-latest-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167900\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Raiders ranked No. 20 in latest AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Two days after their 75-65 loss to Oklahoma State, the Texas Tech Lady Raiders (23-4, 10-4 Big 12) are now ranked No. 20, four spots down from last week, in the latest Associated Press poll released Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">12. TCU (23-4, 11-3), 15. Baylor (22-5, 11-3), and No. 19 West Virginia (21-6, 11-4). It\u2019s worth noting that all the Lady Raiders have beaten all three schools at different points this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa State (20-6, 8-6) is receiving votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The top five:<\/p>\n<p>UConn (27-0), 2. UCLA (25-1), 3. South Carolina (25-2), 4. Texas (24-3), and 5. Vanderbilt (24-3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas Tech returns to the USA 6 p.m. Wednesday, where they will host the Baylor Bears. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Two days after their 75-65 loss to Oklahoma State, the Texas Tech Lady Raiders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58694,557,68143,29904,2692,168,170,169,1769,27007,873],"class_list":{"0":"post-167900","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-poll","11":"tag-big-12-basketball","12":"tag-college-basketball","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news","16":"tag-texas-tech","17":"tag-texas-tech-lady-raiders","18":"tag-texas-tech-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167900","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=167900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}