{"id":94191,"date":"2016-02-08T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94191"},"modified":"2016-02-09T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:08:29","slug":"94191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94191","title":{"rendered":"AP men&#8217;s top 25 college basketball poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-94274\" alt=\"APmenCollegeBBpoll\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll-300x202.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/APmenCollegeBBpoll.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Villanova is No. 1 in The Associated Press college basketball poll for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats (20-3) made the jump from third following then-No. 1 Oklahoma&#8217;s loss to Kansas State and then-No. 2 North Carolina&#8217;s losses to Louisville and Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p>Villanova received 32 first-place votes Monday from the 65-member national media panel. Maryland, which received 13 No. 1 votes, moved up two spots to second.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma, which had been No. 1 for the last three weeks, dropped to third and received seven first-place votes. Iowa, which got 11 first-place votes, is fourth and is followed in the top 10 by Xavier, Kansas, Virginia, Michigan State, North Carolina and West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas and Virginia both received one first-place vote.<\/p>\n<p>No. 23 Southern Cal and No. 24 Texas are the week&#8217;s two newcomers, replacing Indiana and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Others receiving votes: South Carolina 128, Indiana 91, Notre Dame 75, San Diego St. 22, Duke 14, Seton Hall 14, Gonzaga 10, LSU 10, VCU 10, Valparaiso 9, Stony Brook 8, Saint Mary&#8217;s (Cal) 6, Saint Joseph&#8217;s 5, UNC Wilmington 4, Hawaii 3, Utah 3, Chattanooga 2, George Washington 2, UConn 2, Michigan 1, Monmouth (NJ) 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Villanova is No. 1 in The Associated Press college basketball poll for the first time. The Wildcats (20-3) made the jump from third following then-No. 1 Oklahoma&#8217;s loss to Kansas State and then-No. 2 North Carolina&#8217;s losses to Louisville and Notre Dame. Villanova received 32 first-place votes Monday from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94191","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\/94191","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=94191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94276,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94191\/revisions\/94276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}