Back to the Texas Tech Red Raiders Newsfeed

Texas Tech basketball rises slightly in rankings for second-straight week

This weekend, the Texas Tech basketball team will enter Big 12 play as one of only four ranked teams in the league. It will also be the lowest-ranked of those teams.

After a week that saw Chris Beard and his team play just once and look somewhat average while doing so in Sunday’s 73-58 victory over Cal State Bakersfield, the Red Raiders moved up just one spot to No. 22 in the A.P. poll to match where they sit in the Coaches Poll, in which they did not move at all.

This is the second-straight week that Tech has moved up slightly in the polls after re-entering the rankings on December 16th after taking down No.