{"id":19705,"date":"2022-12-13T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19705"},"modified":"2022-12-13T08:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:00:45","slug":"were-1-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/were-1-again\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re #1 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8731\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mackeyarena.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mackeyarena.jpg 519w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mackeyarena-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/>This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for Purdue Men&#8217;s Basketball after the loss of Jaden Ivey, Trevion Williams, Eric Hunter, Sasha Stefanovic, and Isaiah Thompson.\u00a0 Matt Painter and company weren&#8217;t having any of that, though, and, for the second time in school history, Purdue is the #1 ranked men\u2019s college basketball team in the country.\u00a0 A little over a month ago, they were an unranked upstart, but a 10-0 record with decisive victories against Gonzaga and Duke has seen them rise to the top of the rankings in record time.<\/p>\n<p>When they reached #1 last year, the lost their next game that Thursday on the road at Rutgers.\u00a0 This year, they are off until Saturday, when they play Davidson in a neutral site game in Indianapolis.\u00a0 Hopefully they will be able to keep the train rolling and remain at the top heading into January and the bulk of Big Ten play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for Purdue Men&#8217;s Basketball after the loss of Jaden Ivey, Trevion Williams, Eric Hunter, Sasha Stefanovic, and Isaiah Thompson.\u00a0 Matt Painter and company weren&#8217;t having any of that, though, and, for the second time in school history, Purdue is the #1 ranked men\u2019s college basketball team in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[2698,289,2116,2108,10248,2140,10250,10246,10251,2624,10249,10247],"class_list":["post-19705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-big-ten","tag-boiler-up","tag-davidson","tag-duke","tag-eric-hunter","tag-gonzaga","tag-isaiah-thompson","tag-jaden-ivey","tag-matt-painter","tag-rutgers","tag-sasha-stefanovic","tag-trevion-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19706,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions\/19706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}