{"id":238237,"date":"2026-04-07T04:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238237\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:40:21","slug":"texas-tech-softball-still-no-2-in-softball-america-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238237\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech Softball still No. 2 in Softball America Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Fresh off a sweep of the BYU Cougars, to go with a thirteen-game winning streak, Texas Tech softball (38-2, 14-1 Big 12) remains at number two in the newest Softball America poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alabama (35-3) has now jumped to the top spot, especially after taking two of three from the previous No. 1 Texas Longhorns (32-4), who have since dropped to No. 4. Oklahoma (38-3) is ranked No. 3 and Nebraska (30-6) is No. 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No. 12 Arizona (29-8), No. 19 UCF (30-10-1), No. 20 Oklahoma State (25-10), and No. 23 Kansas (23-11).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After a brief Easter break, the No. 2 Red Raiders will return to the diamond this weekend for a three-game series at Utah. First pitch set for 6 p.m. Friday at Dumke Family Softball Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Fresh off a sweep of the BYU Cougars, to go with a thirteen-game winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[46014,168,170,169,66700,26793,52764,1769,415,56529,873],"class_list":{"0":"post-238237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-college-softball","9":"tag-lubbock","10":"tag-lubbock-headlines","11":"tag-lubbock-news","12":"tag-ncaa-softball","13":"tag-softball","14":"tag-softball-america","15":"tag-texas-tech","16":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","17":"tag-texas-tech-softball","18":"tag-texas-tech-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238237","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=238237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}