{"id":187671,"date":"2026-03-03T02:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187671\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:19:14","slug":"lady-raiders-enter-big-12-tournament-ranked-no-21-in-new-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187671\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Raiders enter Big 12 tournament ranked No. 21 in new AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After closing out the regular season with a 58-51 win against Arizona State, the Texas Tech Lady Raiders (25-6, 12-6 Big 12) will head into the Big 12 Women\u2019s Basketball tournament as the No. 5 seed, and as the nation\u2019s No. 21 team according to the Associated Press polls released Monday morning. This ranking is one spot down from the previous week, and Wednesday night\u2019s 68-59 loss at Kansas is factored in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas Tech Athletics is inviting the public to sendoff the Lady Raiders at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Womble Basketball Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Parking will be available at the C15 lot that is west of the basketball center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">10. TCU (27-4, 15-3), 15. West Virginia (24-6, 14-4), and Baylor (24-7, 13-5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa State (22-8, 10-8) and Oklahoma State (23-8, 12-6) are also receiving votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The top five includes:<\/p>\n<p>UConn (31-0), 2. UCLA (28-1), 3. South Carolina (29-2), 4. Texas (28-3) and 5. Vanderbilt (27-3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fifth-seeded Tech will await the Cincinnati-Kansas State winner 11 a.m. Thursday. The Bearcats and Wildcats will tip-off 11 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both of the 2026 Big 12 Tournaments are held at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just like that, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Big12WBB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Big12WBB<\/a> regular season comes to a close&#8230; but the best is yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen: the OFFICIAL 2026 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women&#8217;s Basketball Tournament Bracket \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VI7njw8a8L\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VI7njw8a8L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Big 12 Conference (@Big12Conference) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Big12Conference\/status\/2028245866406879468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After closing out the regular season with a 58-51 win against Arizona State, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[557,55539,61795,2692,168,170,169,1769,8177,27007,873,74891,14445],"class_list":{"0":"post-187671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-big-12-hoops","10":"tag-big-12-womens-hoops","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-texas-tech","16":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","17":"tag-texas-tech-lady-raiders","18":"tag-texas-tech-university","19":"tag-texas-tech-womens-college-basketball","20":"tag-womens-college-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187671","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=187671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}