{"id":40309,"date":"2014-03-03T11:51:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=40309"},"modified":"2014-03-03T11:52:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:52:17","slug":"florida-wichita-st-ariz-top-3-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=40309","title":{"rendered":"Florida, Wichita St., Ariz Top 3 AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Florida, Wichita State and Arizona are the top three teams in The Associated Press college basketball poll for the second straight week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Gators (27-2), who are on a school-record 21-game winning streak, were a solid No. 1 Monday, receiving 46 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wichita State (31-0), the first team since Saint Joseph&#8217;s in 2004 to enter its conference tournament undefeated, was No. 1 on 14 ballots, while Arizona (27-2), which was ranked No. 1 for eight weeks earlier this season, got the other five first-place votes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Duke moved up two spots to fourth while Virginia, which won its first outright Atlantic Coast Conference title since 1981, jumped from 12th to fifth, the Cavaliers&#8217; first Top Ten appearance since 2002.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Villanova was sixth followed by Syracuse, Kansas, Wisconsin and San Diego State.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Connecticut and Oklahoma returned to the Top 25 this week replacing Ohio State and Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Florida, Wichita State and Arizona are the top three teams in The Associated Press college basketball poll for the second straight week. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Gators (27-2), who are on a school-record 21-game winning streak, were a solid No. 1 Monday, receiving 46 first-place votes from the 65-member national media [&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-40309","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\/40309","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=40309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40311,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40309\/revisions\/40311"}],"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=40309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}