{"id":114640,"date":"2017-01-16T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114640"},"modified":"2017-01-16T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:49:54","slug":"nova-back-atop-ap-mens-basketball-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114640","title":{"rendered":"Nova back atop AP mens basketball poll"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"APtop25BB\"(AP) After a week out as No. 1 in The Associated Press college basketball<\/span> poll, Villanova returns to the top spot.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats (17-1), who fell to third last week after five weeks as No. 1, moved back on top following No. 1 Baylor’s loss in its only week ever as a top-ranked team.<\/p>\n

Villanova received 28 first-place votes and 1,580 points from the 65-member national media panel on Monday while Kansas (16-1) remained No. 2 despite getting more first-place votes than the Wildcats. The Jayhawks had 32 No. 1 votes and 1,562 points.<\/p>\n

UCLA (18-1) moved up one place to third and received three first-place votes. Gonzaga (17-0), the only unbeaten team in Division I, went from fifth to fourth and had the other two No. 1 votes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1. Villanova (28)<\/td>\n17-1<\/td>\n1580<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2. Kansas (32)<\/td>\n16-1<\/td>\n1562<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3. UCLA (3)<\/td>\n18-1<\/td>\n1472<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4. Gonzaga (2)<\/td>\n17-0<\/td>\n1433<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5. Kentucky<\/td>\n15-2<\/td>\n1357<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6. Baylor<\/td>\n16-1<\/td>\n1315<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7. West Virginia<\/td>\n15-2<\/td>\n1185<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7. Creighton<\/td>\n17-1<\/td>\n1185<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9. North Carolina<\/td>\n16-3<\/td>\n1063<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10. Florida State<\/td>\n16-2<\/td>\n964<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11. Oregon<\/td>\n16-2<\/td>\n931<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12. Louisville<\/td>\n15-3<\/td>\n900<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13. Butler<\/td>\n15-3<\/td>\n823<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14. Arizona<\/td>\n16-2<\/td>\n757<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15. Notre Dame<\/td>\n16-2<\/td>\n748<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16. Virginia<\/td>\n13-3<\/td>\n677<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17. Wisconsin<\/td>\n14-3<\/td>\n644<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18. Duke<\/td>\n14-4<\/td>\n614<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19. Florida<\/td>\n14-3<\/td>\n405<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20. Cincinnati<\/td>\n15-2<\/td>\n373<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21. Purdue<\/td>\n14-4<\/td>\n309<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22. Xavier<\/td>\n13-4<\/td>\n294<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23. Saint Mary’s (Cal)<\/td>\n15-2<\/td>\n210<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24. South Carolina<\/td>\n14-3<\/td>\n125<\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25. Maryland<\/td>\n16-2<\/td>\n121<\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Others receiving votes: TCU 29, Southern Cal 14, SMU 8, Nevada 7, Northwestern 7, UNC-Wilmington 6, Iowa State 5, Akron 1, Kansas State 1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(AP) After a week out as No. 1 in The Associated Press college basketball poll, Villanova returns to the top spot. The Wildcats (17-1), who fell to third last week after five weeks as No. 1, moved back on top following No. 1 Baylor’s loss in its only week ever […]<\/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-114640","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\/114640","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=114640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114641,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114640\/revisions\/114641"}],"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=114640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}