{"id":239331,"date":"2026-04-07T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/239331\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:36:07","slug":"texas-men-22nd-in-final-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/239331\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas men 22nd in final rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in three years,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/mens-basketball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas basketball<\/a> finished the season ranked in the final Associated Press poll.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off a run to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/mens-basketball\/article\/texas-longhorns-score-today-purdue-basketball-22091789.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Sweet 16<\/a> of the NCAA Tournament, the Longhorns (21-15) placed No. 22 in the final poll released Tuesday, a day after No. 1 Michigan beat No. 2 UConn for the national championship.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has only finished in the final AP poll four times in the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>First-place votes in parentheses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in three years,\u00a0Texas basketball finished the season ranked in the final Associated Press poll.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,19753,27,29,537,19751,28],"class_list":["post-239331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-sean-miller","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-men-s-basketball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239331","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=239331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}