{"id":71439,"date":"2025-12-01T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71439\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:21:07","slug":"uconn-awaits-ap-mens-basketball-poll-following-houston-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71439\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn awaits AP men\u2019s basketball poll following Houston loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">STORRS, CT (WFSB) &#8211; The UConn men\u2019s basketball team may climb a bit in Monday\u2019s Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll\">Top 25 Men\u2019s Basketball Poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While the No. 5 Huskies haven\u2019t lost since last weekend and defeated No. 13 Illinois on Friday, No. 3 Houston lost to Tennessee last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The rest of the top 5, including Purdue, Arizona, and Duke, remained unbeaten last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/video\/2025\/11\/29\/5-huskies-hold-up-well-msg-beat-13th-ranked-illinois-74-61\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/video\/2025\/11\/29\/5-huskies-hold-up-well-msg-beat-13th-ranked-illinois-74-61\/\">UConn (6-1) defeated Illinois 74-61<\/a> at Madison Square Garden in New York City as part of the SentinelOne Showdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Malachi Smith led the Huskies with 14 points and 9 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UConn heads to Lawrence to taken on Kansas on Tuesday. Tip off is at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fans can watch the game on ESPN2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STORRS, CT (WFSB) &#8211; The UConn men\u2019s basketball team may climb a bit in Monday\u2019s Associated Press Top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2692,56,58,57,21306,1771,29183,3124,35857,35856,35865,35862,35863,35867,35866,35868,35858,35859,35860,35861,35864,35869,35870],"class_list":["post-71439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-college-basketball","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-mens-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-uconn","tag-uconn-ap-poll","tag-uconn-ap-ranking","tag-uconn-channel","tag-uconn-illinois","tag-uconn-kansas","tag-uconn-kansas-channel","tag-uconn-kansas-streaming","tag-uconn-kansas-tv","tag-uconn-mens-basketball","tag-uconn-mens-basketball-ap-poll","tag-uconn-mens-basketball-ap-ranking","tag-uconn-mens-basketball-ranking","tag-uconn-streaming","tag-what-channel-is-the-uconn-game-on","tag-what-channel-us-uconn-mens-basketball-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}