{"id":136187,"date":"2018-01-09T07:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=136187"},"modified":"2018-01-09T07:22:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:22:05","slug":"ap-college-basketball-polls-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=136187","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press college basketball polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 The Associated Press men\u2019s basketball poll has a new look after four of the top-5 teams lost last week. The upsets benefited Villanova, which is back atop the poll after falling from first to third last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats picked up 52 of 65 first-place votes to take the No. 1 position for the fourth week this season.<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia vaulted from fifth to second, its highest ranking since December 1959 in Jerry West\u2019s senior season.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia moved up five slots to third and is followed by previous No. 1 Michigan State. Purdue and Wichita State are tied for fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Duke, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Xavier round out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Connecticut remains the unanimous No. 1 team in the AP women\u2019s poll. Notre Dame, Louisville, Mississippi State and Baylor fill out the top five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 The Associated Press men\u2019s basketball poll has a new look after four of the top-5 teams lost last week. The upsets benefited Villanova, which is back atop the poll after falling from first to third last week. The Wildcats picked up 52 of 65 first-place votes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136187","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\/136187","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=136187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136191,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136187\/revisions\/136191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}