{"id":171040,"date":"2026-02-19T07:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171040\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:55:13","slug":"jt-toppin-out-for-remainder-of-season-with-torn-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171040\/","title":{"rendered":"JT Toppin out for remainder of season with torn ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech Athletics confirms JT Toppin sustained a season-ending knee injury on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Toppin tore his ACL in his right knee during Texas Tech\u2019s loss to Arizona State. Toppin was a four-time Big 12 Conference player of the week and averaged around 22 points per game and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/02\/18\/no-13-texas-tech-falls-arizona-state-72-67-jt-toppin-leaves-game-with-right-leg-injury\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/02\/18\/no-13-texas-tech-falls-arizona-state-72-67-jt-toppin-leaves-game-with-right-leg-injury\/\">No. 13 Texas Tech falls to Arizona State, 72-67<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders are down to their final five games of the year. Up next, Texas Tech will host Kansas State on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech Athletics confirms JT Toppin sustained a season-ending knee injury on Tuesday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,14855,168,170,169,1775,1769,69114,7493],"class_list":{"0":"post-171040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-big-12","9":"tag-jt-toppin","10":"tag-lubbock","11":"tag-lubbock-headlines","12":"tag-lubbock-news","13":"tag-red-raiders","14":"tag-texas-tech","15":"tag-torn-acl","16":"tag-update"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171040","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=171040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}