{"id":113824,"date":"2017-01-03T07:22:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=113824"},"modified":"2017-01-03T07:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:22:56","slug":"ap-top-25-mens-basketball-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=113824","title":{"rendered":"AP Top 25 Men&#8217;s Basketball Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-96915\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/APtop25-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"APtop25\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/APtop25-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/APtop25-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/APtop25-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/APtop25.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>T25 MEN\u2019S BASKETBALL<\/p>\n<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Villanova is spending a fifth straight week atop The Associated Press men\u2019s Top-25 basketball poll.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champs received 59 first-place votes after improving to 14-0 and running their winning streak to 20 games by beating Creighton on Saturday. Second-ranked Baylor claimed the remaining six first-place votes.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas, UCLA and Gonzaga round out the top five and are followed by Kentucky, West Virginia, Duke, Louisville and Creighton.<\/p>\n<p>Villanova, Gonzaga and Baylor are the only unbeaten teams left in Division 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T25 MEN\u2019S BASKETBALL UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Villanova is spending a fifth straight week atop The Associated Press men\u2019s Top-25 basketball poll. The defending champs received 59 first-place votes after improving to 14-0 and running their winning streak to 20 games by beating Creighton on Saturday. Second-ranked Baylor claimed the remaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113824","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\/113824","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=113824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113825,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113824\/revisions\/113825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}