{"id":198533,"date":"2026-03-10T17:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198533\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:29:18","slug":"texas-stays-no-3-behind-tennessee-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198533\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas stays No. 3 behind Tennessee, Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas (22-1, 3-0) is still behind No. 1 Tennessee and No. 2 Texas Tech in the latest National Fastpitch Coaches Association poll released Tuesday. The Longhorns didn\u2019t receive a first-place vote while garnering 712 total points. Tennessee received 30 of the 31 first-place votes.<\/p>\n<p>The latest rankings reflect the SEC\u2019s continuing dominance. Five of the top six teams come from the conference, including No. 4 Alabama, No. 5 Florida and No. 6 Oklahoma along with Tennessee and Texas. Overall, 11 SEC teams earned a spot in the poll.<\/p>\n<p>After a Wednesday nonconference game against East Texas A&amp;M, Texas opens a three-game SEC series against Ole Miss (18-8, 0-3) Friday at McCombs Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">(CORRECTION: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported the site of this weekend&#8217;s Texas-Ole Miss series.)<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina (34), Duke (26), North Florida (22), Utah (10), Florida Atlantic (6), Michigan (6), Penn State (6), Belmont (5), Auburn (4), Ole Miss (3), Southeastern Louisiana (3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas (22-1, 3-0) is still behind No. 1 Tennessee and No. 2 Texas Tech in the latest National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46014,790,27,29,537,28703,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-198533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-college-softball","9":"tag-tennessee-volunteers","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-longhorns","13":"tag-texas-longhorns-softball","14":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198533","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=198533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}