{"id":194561,"date":"2020-03-19T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T12:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194561"},"modified":"2020-03-19T07:32:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T12:32:58","slug":"final-ap-mens-college-basketball-poll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194561","title":{"rendered":"Final AP Men&#8217;s College Basketball Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Kansas can start celebrating their finish atop the final Top 25 from The Associated Press. The regular-season Big 12 champions, who were 28-3 when the season abruptly ended after the first day of the conference tournament last week, received 63 of 65 first-place votes from a national media panel in balloting released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>That easily outdistanced No. 2 Gonzaga and No. 3 Dayton, each of which received a first-place vote.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State was fourth, easily the best finish ever for the Seminoles, while Baylor rounded out the top five after spending a longer stretch at No. 1 than any other team during a topsy-turvy season.<\/p>\n<p>The final rankings were based on play through March 11, when the outbreak of the coronavirus brought the sport to a halt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Kansas can start celebrating their finish atop the final Top 25 from The Associated Press. The regular-season Big 12 champions, who were 28-3 when the season abruptly ended after the first day of the conference tournament last week, received 63 of 65 first-place votes from a national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194561","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\/194561","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=194561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194562,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194561\/revisions\/194562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}