{"id":20877,"date":"2023-11-29T02:58:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20877"},"modified":"2023-11-27T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:07:01","slug":"we-are-once-again-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/we-are-once-again-1\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are, Once Again, #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mackeyarena.jpg\"><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=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mackeyarena.jpg 519w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mackeyarena-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a>For the third season in a row, and the third season in program history, Purdue is the #1 ranked men\u2019s college basketball team in the country.\u00a0 Following their victories over #11 Gonzaga, # 7 Tennessee, and #4 Marquette while winning the Maui Invitational last week, the team moved up from #2 to take the top spot, becoming the first Big Ten program to do so in three consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Their next big test will come in three weeks, when they battle Arizona, the current #2 ranked team, on a neutral court in the Indy Classic.\u00a0 Hopefully they will retain their #1 ranking when I head to Mackey on December 21st to see them battle Jacksonville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third season in a row, and the third season in program history, Purdue is the #1 ranked men\u2019s college basketball team in the country.\u00a0 Following their victories over #11 Gonzaga, # 7 Tennessee, and #4 Marquette while winning the Maui Invitational last week, the team moved up from #2 to take the top [&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":[3313,2698,289,2140,10814,10815,1643,2119,10813,4614],"class_list":["post-20877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-arizona","tag-big-ten","tag-boiler-up","tag-gonzaga","tag-indy-classic","tag-jacksonville","tag-mackey-arena","tag-marquette","tag-maui-invitational","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20878,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877\/revisions\/20878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}