{"id":735,"date":"2008-12-02T09:11:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/12\/02\/mens-basketball-cracks-ap-top-25\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T09:11:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:11:18","slug":"mens-basketball-cracks-ap-top-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/12\/mens-basketball-cracks-ap-top-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s basketball cracks AP Top 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/quincy-acy-dec08a.jpg\" alt=\"Quincy Acy\" align=\"right\" \/>After starting the season 6-1, including a win over 14th-ranked Arizona State, the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball program <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/120108aae.html\" target=\"_blank\">has broken into the Associated Press&#8217; Top 25<\/a>, landing at <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncb\/rankings\" target=\"_blank\">No. 24<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>That ranking is the Bears&#8217; highest since they were ranked 19th in February 1969. Last season, <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/01\/22\/mens-basketball-ranked-in-ap-top-25\/\" target=\"_blank\">the men spent two weeks at No. 25<\/a>; this marks the first time the Baylor men have ever been ranked in consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Bears, meanwhile, are also 6-1 and <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncw\/rankings\" target=\"_blank\">ranked 10th in the nation<\/a>; their lone loss came Saturday, a one-point defeat in the championship game of the Paradise Jam Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The men will look to defend their ranking Saturday at Washington State; tip-off is set for 10:30 p.m. CT, and the game will be televised nationally on Fox Sports Net. The women will host St. John&#8217;s Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Ferrell Center.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor basketball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After starting the season 6-1, including a win over 14th-ranked Arizona State, the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball program has broken into the Associated Press&#8217; Top 25, landing at No. 24 this week. That ranking is the Bears&#8217; highest since they were ranked 19th in February 1969. Last season, the men spent two weeks at No. 25; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}