{"id":109965,"date":"2016-10-31T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=109965"},"modified":"2016-10-31T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:50:12","slug":"ap-preseason-top-25-mens-basketball-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=109965","title":{"rendered":"AP preseason top 25 men&#8217;s basketball poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-94274\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"APmenCollegeBBpoll\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>With first-place votes in parentheses, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last year&#8217;s final ranking<\/p>\n<p>1. Duke (58)<br \/>\n2. Kentucky (2)<br \/>\n3. Kansas<br \/>\n4. Villanova (4)<br \/>\n5. Oregon (1)<br \/>\n6. North Carolina<br \/>\n7. Xavier<br \/>\n8. Virginia<br \/>\n9. Wisconsin<br \/>\n10. Arizona<br \/>\n11. Indiana<br \/>\n12. Michigan St.<br \/>\n13. Louisville<br \/>\n14. Gonzaga<br \/>\n15. Purdue<br \/>\n16. UCLA<br \/>\n17. Saint Mary&#8217;s (Cal)<br \/>\n18. UConn<br \/>\n19. Syracuse<br \/>\n20. West Virginia<br \/>\n21. Texas<br \/>\n22. Creighton<br \/>\n23. Rhode Island<br \/>\n24. Iowa St.<br \/>\n25. Maryland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Others receiving votes:<\/strong> Cincinnati 110, Dayton 98, Florida St. 88, California 74, San Diego St. 48, Miami 35, NC State 29, Butler 21, Wichita St. 21, Florida 18, Virginia Tech 18, Ohio St. 18, Mississippi St. 14, Texas A&amp;M 14, Oklahoma 11, Colorado 10, Michigan 8, Monmouth (NJ) 7, Notre Dame 6, Washington 5, Seton Hall 5, Princeton 2, Ohio 1, Harvard 1, Vanderbilt 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With first-place votes in parentheses, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last year&#8217;s final ranking 1. Duke (58) 2. Kentucky (2) 3. Kansas 4. Villanova (4) 5. Oregon (1) 6. North Carolina 7. Xavier 8. Virginia 9. Wisconsin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109966,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109965\/revisions\/109966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}