{"id":197574,"date":"2026-03-10T02:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197574\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:07:19","slug":"lady-raiders-drop-to-no-25-in-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197574\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Raiders drop to No. 25 in AP poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">While the Texas Tech Lady Raiders (25-7, 12-7 Big 12) are trying to make last week\u2019s 58-51 loss to Kansas State a distant memory, the team is still nationally ranked while heading into the NCAA tournament. Monday morning, they were announced as the No. 25 team in the nation- four spots down from the previous week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 programs include:<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia (26-6, 17-4), 14. TCU (29-5, 17-4), 21. Baylor (24-8, 13-6).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Colorado (22-7, 12-8) is also receiving votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The top five:<\/p>\n<p>UConn (33-0), 2. UCLA (31-1), 3. Texas (31-3), 4. South Carolina (31-3), and 5. LSU (27-5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lady Raiders will find out their tournament destination next Sunday with the selection show set to begin at 7 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Texas Tech Lady Raiders (25-7, 12-7 Big 12) are trying to make last week\u2019s 58-51 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[557,315,49632,2692,168,170,169,1769,8177,27007,34112,14445],"class_list":["post-197574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-associated-press","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-womens-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-basketball","tag-texas-tech-lady-raiders","tag-texas-tech-womens-basketball","tag-womens-college-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197574","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=197574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}