{"id":137046,"date":"2018-01-23T07:15:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137046"},"modified":"2018-01-23T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T15:05:33","slug":"college-basketball-polls-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137046","title":{"rendered":"National College basketball polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Villanova maintained its hold on No. 1 in the AP Top 25 college basketball poll, while another bunch of Wildcats found themselves sliding out of the rankings for the first time in nearly four years.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky is out of the poll following losses to South Carolina and Florida. Kentucky had been 18th before falling out for the first time since March 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Villanova claimed 63 of 65 first-place votes, while second-ranked Virginia and No. 3 Purdue received one apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Duke and Kansas round out the top five and are followed by Michigan State, West Virginia, Xavier, Cincinnati and North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>St. Mary&#8217;s beat Gonzaga last week to move back into the poll at No. 16.<\/p>\n<p>UConn remains the unanimous No. 1 team in the AP women&#8217;s poll after continuing their triple-digit winning streak. Mississippi State is second, ahead of Baylor, Louisville and Notre Dame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Villanova maintained its hold on No. 1 in the AP Top 25 college basketball poll, while another bunch of Wildcats found themselves sliding out of the rankings for the first time in nearly four years. Kentucky is out of the poll following losses to South Carolina and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137046","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\/137046","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=137046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137076,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137046\/revisions\/137076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}