{"id":183249,"date":"2019-10-22T07:12:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=183249"},"modified":"2019-10-22T07:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:12:51","slug":"ap-college-preseason-basketball-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=183249","title":{"rendered":"AP College Preseason Basketball Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP)\u00a0 &#8211; Michigan State is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men&#8217;s college basketball preseason poll for the first time in program history.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans took the top spot on 60 of 65 ballots in results released Monday. Kentucky was No. 2 with two first-place votes, while third-ranked Kansas received the other three.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State had been ranked No. 1 for 12 weeks all-time in the AP poll before Monday, but never to start a season.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Izzo&#8217;s Spartans return star Cassius Winston, along with starters Joshua Langford, Xavier Tillman and Aaron Henry from a 32-win team that reached the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>Duke is ranked fourth, followed by Louisville, Florida, Maryland, Gonzaga, North Carolina and Villanova to round out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning national champion Virginia starts at No. 11.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP)\u00a0 &#8211; Michigan State is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men&#8217;s college basketball preseason poll for the first time in program history. The Spartans took the top spot on 60 of 65 ballots in results released Monday. Kentucky was No. 2 with two first-place votes, while [&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-183249","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\/183249","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=183249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183250,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183249\/revisions\/183250"}],"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=183249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}