{"id":23371,"date":"2025-10-14T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23371"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:35:07","slug":"starting-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/starting-at-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting At The Top"},"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\" \/>Four years ago, the Purdue men&#8217;s basketball team reached #1 in the AP rankings for the first time in program history.\u00a0 Over the past three seasons, the Boilermakers have spent at least one week each season at the top of the poll, leading all of college basketball with thirteen weeks total.\u00a0 Yesterday, another first was achieved as the team was atop the first preseason poll for the first time in program history.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve come close twice before, ranked #3 in 2023-24 heading into Zach Edey&#8217;s final season and #2 in 1987-88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, the Purdue men&#8217;s basketball team reached #1 in the AP rankings for the first time in program history.\u00a0 Over the past three seasons, the Boilermakers have spent at least one week each season at the top of the poll, leading all of college basketball with thirteen weeks total.\u00a0 Yesterday, another first was [&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":[289,10585],"class_list":["post-23371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-boiler-up","tag-zach-edey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23371","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=23371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23372,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23371\/revisions\/23372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}