{"id":396683,"date":"2016-10-31T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=396683"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:34:05","slug":"duke-starts-the-season-ranked-atop-the-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=396683","title":{"rendered":"Duke starts the season ranked atop the AP poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/blogs\/sports\/acc_basketball\/duke-starts-the-season-ranked-atop-the-ap-poll\/article_16a7249e-9f8e-11e6-93c5-73890ac83ebd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/fayobserver.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/7\/23\/723f1af4-9f8f-11e6-8e5c-0b04ed2b8d85\/58177f89987c6.image.jpg?resize=300,243\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Duke received 58 out of a possible 65 first place votes in the Associated Press preseason men&#8217;s basketball poll, which was released Monday. The top-ranked Blue Devils were followed by Kentucky, Kansas and reigning national champ Villanova. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/blogs\/sports\/acc_basketball\/duke-starts-the-season-ranked-atop-the-ap-poll\/article_16a7249e-9f8e-11e6-93c5-73890ac83ebd.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-starts-the-season-ranked-atop-the-ap-poll\/article_16a7249e-9f8e-11e6-93c5-73890ac83ebd.html\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Duke starts the season ranked atop the AP poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke received 58 out of a possible 65 first place votes in the Associated Press preseason men&#8217;s basketball poll, which was released Monday. The top-ranked Blue&#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-396683","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\/396683","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=396683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920590,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396683\/revisions\/1920590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}