{"id":547392,"date":"2026-01-19T20:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/547392\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T20:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:19:12","slug":"byu-falls-2-spots-to-no-13-in-ap-top-25-after-loss-to-texas-tech-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/547392\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU falls 2 spots to No. 13 in AP Top 25 after loss to Texas Tech \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BYU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/sports\/2026\/01\/17\/byu-analysis-texas-tech-showdown-lubbock-red-raiders-dybantsa-saunders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/sports\/2026\/01\/17\/byu-analysis-texas-tech-showdown-lubbock-red-raiders-dybantsa-saunders\/\">13-game win streak came to an end<\/a> this past weekend against Texas Tech, prompting a slide in the AP Top 25 poll for the second week in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Cougars came in at No. 13 in Monday\u2019s updated rankings, dropping two spots from their No. 11 spot last week and five spots overall from their No. 8 preseason ranking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Red Raiders, however, leapfrogged BYU in the poll to come in at No. 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BYU is joined by five other Big 12 squads in this week\u2019s poll \u2014 No. 1 Arizona, No. 6 Houston, No. 9 Iowa State, No. 12 Texas Tech and No. 19 Kansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Additionally, BYU\u2019s two preseason exhibition opponents \u2014 Nebraska and UNC \u2014 each came in at No. 7 and No. 22, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Utah State, which was ranked No. 23 a week ago, dropped out of the rankings after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/sports\/2026\/01\/17\/williams-and-moore-score-20-points-each-grand-canyon-knocks-off-no-23-utah-state-84-74\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/sports\/2026\/01\/17\/williams-and-moore-score-20-points-each-grand-canyon-knocks-off-no-23-utah-state-84-74\/\">a 10-point road loss to Grand Canyon<\/a>, but still received 15 points from voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In KenPom, BYU ranks No. 15, while also sitting at No. 11 in NET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Cougars will have the week off before hosting rival Utah Saturday at the Marriott Center for the opportunity to begin a new win streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Editor\u2019s note: Jackson Payne is a voter for the AP Top 25 poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BYU\u2019s 13-game win streak came to an end this past weekend against Texas Tech, prompting a slide in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,1111],"class_list":{"0":"post-547392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-news-feed-local"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115923620083515742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}