{"id":550312,"date":"2017-11-01T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=550312"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:30:52","slug":"duke-is-no-1-in-ap-preseason-poll-for-second-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=550312","title":{"rendered":"Duke is No. 1 in AP preseason poll for second straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/duke-is-no-1-in-ap-preseason-poll-for-second-straight-year\/17080420\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2017\/11\/01\/17080420\/media_967afe576a0c4be5ba081119474b3dea-DMID1-5cmsgmihc-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"AP_Top_25_Basketball_13408\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Duke was in good position to be ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press poll before landing Marvin Bagley III. Once the nation&#8217;s top recruit decided to reclassify for this season, the Blue Devils became the voters&#8217; clear choice. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/duke-is-no-1-in-ap-preseason-poll-for-second-straight-year\/17080420\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/duke-is-no-1-in-ap-preseason-poll-for-second-straight-year\/17080420\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Duke is No. 1 in AP preseason poll for second straight year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke was in good position to be ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press poll before landing Marvin Bagley III. Once the nation&#8217;s top recruit decided&#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-550312","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\/550312","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=550312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920489,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550312\/revisions\/1920489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}