{"id":1939343,"date":"2026-10-20T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939343"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:12:26","slug":"duke-ranked-no-4-in-preseason-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939343","title":{"rendered":"Duke Ranked No. 4 in Preseason AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aaliyah Crump Dribbles Towards the Basket During Countdown to Craziness\" src=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/10\/20\/Aaliyah_Crump_Countdown.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DURHAM, N.C. \u2014\u00a0The\u00a0Duke\u00a0women&#8217;s basketball team will\u00a0begin\u00a0the 2026-27 season ranked as a top five team as the Associated Press tabbed the Blue Devils fourth in the AP Preseason Top 25 poll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/news\/2026\/10\/20\/womens-basketball-duke-ranked-no-4-in-preseason-ap-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURHAM, N.C. \u2014\u00a0The\u00a0Duke\u00a0women&#8217;s basketball team will\u00a0begin\u00a0the 2026-27 season ranked as a top five team as the Associated Press tabbed the Blue Devils fourth in the AP&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1939344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","wpcat-82-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939345,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939343\/revisions\/1939345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}