{"id":265652,"date":"2025-09-30T04:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265652\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:55:13","slug":"illinois-state-mens-basketball-ranked-first-in-mvc-preseason-poll-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265652\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois State men&#8217;s basketball ranked first in MVC preseason poll | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Illinois State men\u2019s basketball enters one of its most anticipated seasons in recent memory \u2013 and the Redbirds received great news on Monday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">ISU was voted first in the Missouri Valley Conference in the preseason poll \u2013 marking its first selection since the 2001-02 season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Redbirds received 34 of 46 first place votes in the poll and totaled 487 points.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goredbirds.com\/staff-directory\/ryan-pedon\/3616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Pedon<\/a> and company finished last season with a 22-14 record and aim to improve. With roster retention and nationally ranked opponents, the Redbirds have their eyes set on putting the college basketball world on notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up Next:<\/p>\n<p>The Redbirds&#8217; season kicks off at 2 p.m. Oct. 19 at the State Farm Center in an exhibition against Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois State men\u2019s basketball enters one of its most anticipated seasons in recent memory \u2013 and the Redbirds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,138618,138621,138620,138622,138619,1317,1337,1338,4154,138623,138347,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-265652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-isu","10":"tag-johnny-kinziger","11":"tag-missouri-valley","12":"tag-missouri-valley-conference","13":"tag-mvc","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-basketball","16":"tag-ncaabasketball","17":"tag-poll","18":"tag-redbirds","19":"tag-ryan-pedon","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}