{"id":94886,"date":"2016-02-15T15:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94886"},"modified":"2016-02-15T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:10:56","slug":"cats-dig-in-no-2-again-ap-mens-basketball-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94886","title":{"rendered":"Cats dig in, No.2 again AP mens basketball poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By The Associated Press<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Villanova is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 for a second week and Kansas, coming off wins over two top 10 teams, jumps four places to second.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Duke, which had one of the longest consecutive poll streaks ever, returns at No. 20 after two weeks out of the Top 25.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Villanova (22-3) received 44 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel on Monday with Kansas (21-4) getting the other 21.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oklahoma, which lost to Kansas in their rematch, and Iowa stayed third and fourth. North Carolina jumped four places to fifth and was followed by Maryland, which had been No. 2, and Virginia. Michigan State and Xavier are tied for eighth and West Virginia, which also lost to Kansas, is 10th.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joining Duke as newcomers are No. 19 Notre Dame and No. 22 Indiana. They replace Texas A&amp;M, Southern Cal and Wichita State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Associated Press \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Villanova is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 for a second week and Kansas, coming off wins over two top 10 teams, jumps four places to second. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Duke, which had one of the longest consecutive poll streaks ever, returns at No. [&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-94886","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\/94886","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=94886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94888,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94886\/revisions\/94888"}],"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=94886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}