{"id":228391,"date":"2026-03-31T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228391\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:18:28","slug":"red-raiders-remain-no-2-in-softball-america-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228391\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raiders remain No. 2 in Softball America poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">After nine consecutive wins and a three-game sweep over Iowa State, Texas Tech softball (34-2, 11-1 Big 12) is still ranked the No. 2 team in the nation in Softball America poll released Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With a record of 31-2, the Texas Longhorns remain one spot above the Red Raiders despite a 9-7 loss to Texas A&amp;M Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The rest of the top five:<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma (34-3), 4. Alabama (33-2), and 5. Nebraska (26-6).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools:<\/p>\n<p>Arizona (27-8), 21. UCF (28-10), 22. Arizona State (28-9), and 23. Oklahoma State (25-10).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders return to the diamond Tuesday evening for a road contest with Abilene Christian. First pitch set for 5 p.m. This weekend, they will host BYU in a three-game series beginning Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Also on Monday morning, Tech softball added a road game at Texas State slated for Wednesday, April 15 at Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nine consecutive wins and a three-game sweep over Iowa State, Texas Tech softball (34-2, 11-1 Big 12)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,87486,168,170,169,66700,52764,1769,415,56529,873],"class_list":["post-228391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-softball","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-ncaa-softball","tag-softball-america","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech-softball","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228391","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=228391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}