{"id":138441,"date":"2018-02-13T07:12:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=138441"},"modified":"2018-02-13T07:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T13:12:40","slug":"ap-top-25-college-basketball-polls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=138441","title":{"rendered":"AP Top 25 College Basketball Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Virginia has climbed to No. 1 in the latest Associated Press men&#8217;s basketball poll despite Saturday&#8217;s loss to Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers received 30 of 65 first-place votes to reach the top of the poll for the first time since December 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Second-ranked Michigan State is second in the poll with 21 first-place votes and is followed in the poll by former No. 1 Villanova, Xavier and Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Purdue is sixth, ahead of Texas Tech, Ohio State, Gonzaga and Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>UConn remains the unanimous No. 1 team in the AP women&#8217;s poll. Mississippi State, Baylor, Louisville and Notre Dame round out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>And Belmont is in the AP poll for the first time in school history, checking in at No. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Virginia has climbed to No. 1 in the latest Associated Press men&#8217;s basketball poll despite Saturday&#8217;s loss to Virginia Tech. The Cavaliers received 30 of 65 first-place votes to reach the top of the poll for the first time since December 1982. Second-ranked Michigan State is [&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-138441","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\/138441","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=138441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138442,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138441\/revisions\/138442"}],"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=138441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}