{"id":97864,"date":"2025-12-23T00:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97864\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:59:12","slug":"lady-raiders-in-top-25-for-first-time-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97864\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Raiders in Top 25 for first time since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/12\/22\/lady-raiders-defeat-no-15-baylor-waco-open-big-12-play\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/12\/22\/lady-raiders-defeat-no-15-baylor-waco-open-big-12-play\/\">a huge win in Waco<\/a> over Baylor Sunday, the Texas Tech women\u2019s basketball team is back in the AP Top 25 for the first time since January 2012. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Coach Krista Gerlich\u2019s Lady Raiders are ranked 21st in the poll released Dec. 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tech (14-0, 1-0 Big 12) defeated then-No.15 Baylor 61-60 Sunday, the first time to beat Baylor since 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll\">AP Top 25 Women\u2019s College Basketball<\/a>: 1. U Conn, 2. Texas, 3. South Carolina, 4. UCLA, 5. LSU, 6. Michigan, 7. Maryland, 8. TCU, 9. Oklahoma, 10. Iowa State, 11. Kentucky, 12. Vanderbilt, 13. Louisville, 14. Iowa, 15. Ole Miss, 16. North Carolina, 17. USC, 18. Notre Dame, 19. Ohio State, 20. Nebraska, 21. Texas Tech, 22. Baylor, 23. Tennessee, 24. Michigan State, 25. Princeton<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lady Raiders will be off for Christmas. They next host the Central Florida Knights 6 p.m. December 31 at the USA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Following a huge win in Waco over Baylor Sunday, the Texas Tech women\u2019s basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20926,1770,8505,21868,168,170,169,1769,758],"class_list":["post-97864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-ap-poll","tag-basketball","tag-baylor","tag-lady-raiders","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-top-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97864","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=97864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}