{"id":135830,"date":"2018-01-02T07:34:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T13:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135830"},"modified":"2018-01-02T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T13:34:48","slug":"ap-top-25-college-basketball-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135830","title":{"rendered":"AP Top 25 College Basketball Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michigan State is the new No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans received 43 of 65 first-place votes to earn the top spot for the first time in two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Second-ranked Duke received 21 first-place votes and Villanova dropped from first to third. The Wildcats were 101-93 losers to Butler on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona State fell one spot to fourth, while Xavier moved up one place to fifth. West Virginia, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wichita State and Kansas fill out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 There\u2019s no change among the top eight in the AP women\u2019s poll, which means unanimous No. 1 team UConn is followed by Notre Dame, Louisville, South Carolina and Mississippi State. Baylor stays at No. 6, ahead of Tennessee and Texas. Oregon moved up a spot to ninth and Ohio State is 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford is back in the poll following a one-week absence, landing at No. 24 after ending a 17-year run among the top-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michigan State is the new No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25. The Spartans received 43 of 65 first-place votes to earn the top spot for the first time in two seasons. Second-ranked Duke received 21 first-place votes and Villanova dropped from first to third. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135830","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\/135830","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=135830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135831,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135830\/revisions\/135831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}