{"id":188617,"date":"2026-03-03T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188617\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:50:11","slug":"texas-no-3-behind-tennessee-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188617\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas No. 3 behind Tennessee, Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the Longhorns still can\u2019t make headway in the national rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Texas (19-1) remains No. 3 in Tuesday\u2019s National Fastpitch Coaches Association poll behind No. 1 Tennessee and No. 2 Texas Tech. The Longhorns didn\u2019t receive a first-place vote while garnering 710 total points.<\/p>\n<p>The latest rankings reflect the SEC\u2019s dominance. Six of the top seven teams come from the conference, including No. 4 Alabama, No. 5 Florida, No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 7 Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>Texas opens SEC play with a three-game series that starts Friday at South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina (30), Ole Miss (25), Duke (24), Penn State (10), Belmont (8), Florida Atlantic (4), Auburn (3), Michigan (3), North Florida (1), Southeastern Louisiana (1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the Longhorns still can\u2019t make headway in the national rankings. Texas (19-1) remains No. 3 in Tuesday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46014,66700,790,27,29,537,28703,28],"class_list":["post-188617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-softball","tag-ncaa-softball","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-softball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188617","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=188617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}