{"id":394760,"date":"2016-10-20T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=394760"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:34:07","slug":"duke-picked-first-in-usa-todays-preseason-coaches-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=394760","title":{"rendered":"Duke picked first in USA Today&#8217;s preseason coaches poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/blogs\/sports\/acc_basketball\/duke-picked-first-in-usa-today-s-preseason-coaches-poll\/article_8bbdfade-96db-11e6-97a3-b7543eeb6c0a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/fayobserver.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/c\/c8\/cc84ea5a-96db-11e6-95dc-63c4513c519f\/5808e60ce2e0b.image.jpg?resize=300,237\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Duke was the runaway top pick in USA Today&#8217;s preseason coaches poll, which was released Thursday. The Blue Devils return key pieces from last season&#8217;s Sweet 16 squad and have the top-rated crop of incoming freshmen. That was good enough\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/blogs\/sports\/acc_basketball\/duke-picked-first-in-usa-today-s-preseason-coaches-poll\/article_8bbdfade-96db-11e6-97a3-b7543eeb6c0a.html\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/blogs\/sports\/acc_basketball\/duke-picked-first-in-usa-today-s-preseason-coaches-poll\/article_8bbdfade-96db-11e6-97a3-b7543eeb6c0a.html\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Duke picked first in USA Today&#039;s preseason coaches poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke was the runaway top pick in USA Today&#8217;s preseason coaches poll, which was released Thursday. The Blue Devils return key pieces from last season&#8217;s Sweet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394760","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920594,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394760\/revisions\/1920594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}