{"id":190516,"date":"2026-03-04T19:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/190516\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:17:25","slug":"red-raiders-rise-to-no-10-in-new-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/190516\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raiders rise to No. 10 in new AP poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">After a strong week that included a 82-73 win at then-No. 4 Iowa State, preceded by an 80-68 win over Cincinnati- all without standout forward JT Toppin, the Texas Tech Red Raiders (22-7, 12-4 Big 12) are now No. 10 in the new Associated Press poll release Monday. This new ranking is six spots higher from the previous week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Saturday\u2019s win at Ames, Ia. also vaulted the Red Raiders to second place in the conference, where they are tied with Houston. Arizona sits in first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">2. Arizona (27-2, 14-2), No. 6 Iowa State (24-5, 11-5) and 7. Houston (24-5, 12-4). It is worth noting Tech has been 3-1 against these three programs this season. 14. Kansas (21-8, 11-5) is also in the Top 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">BYU (20-9, 8-8), TCU (19-10, 9-7) and UCF (20-8, 9-7) are also receiving votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The rest of the top five includes:<\/p>\n<p>Duke (27-2), who lost to Tech 82-81 Dec. 20 in New York City, 3. Michigan (27-2), 4. UCONN (27-3), and 5. Florida (23-6).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders will host TCU (19-10, 9-7) Tuesday night, tip-off set for 6 p.m. On Saturday, they will close out regular season play at BYU (20-9, 8-8).<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a strong week that included a 82-73 win at then-No. 4 Iowa State, preceded by an 80-68&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[557,315,29904,2692,29902,168,170,169,4862,29183,1769,33227,415,873],"class_list":{"0":"post-190516","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","10":"tag-big-12-basketball","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-college-hoops","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news","16":"tag-mens-college-basketball","17":"tag-ncaa-basketball","18":"tag-texas-tech","19":"tag-texas-tech-mens-basketball","20":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","21":"tag-texas-tech-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190516","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=190516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}