{"id":9913,"date":"2020-11-21T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/optimism-abounds-for-no-17-houston-before-opener-vs-lamar\/"},"modified":"2020-11-21T02:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:57:00","slug":"optimism-abounds-for-no-17-houston-before-opener-vs-lamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/optimism-abounds-for-no-17-houston-before-opener-vs-lamar\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism abounds for No. 17 Houston before opener vs. Lamar"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>For the first time in 37 years, the Houston Cougars will open a season ranked among the Top 25 in the AP preseason poll, perhaps the clearest indication of their ascent under veteran coach Kelvin Sampson.  The 17th-ranked Cougars (23-8, 13-5 American Athletic Conference last season) have won 20-plus games in each of the past five seasons and have been ranked a total of 30 weeks during the past three seasons with three Top 25 finishes.  Houston will open this campaign Wednesday hosting Lamar at the Fertitta Center as a fixture in the polls while seeking to maintain program momentum.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/optimism-abounds-no-17-houston-opener-vs-lamar-075003711--ncaab.html?src=rss\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Optimism abounds for No. 17 Houston before opener vs. Lamar\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo News &#8211; Sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 37 years, the Houston Cougars will open a season ranked among the Top 25 in the AP preseason poll, perhaps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}