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No. 1 Iowa State to Face No. 3 Iowa
12.05.2007 | Men's Wrestling
AMES, Iowa -- No. 1 Iowa State (6-0) will play host to intrastate rival and third-ranked Iowa (4-0) in the Hy-Vee Cy-Hawk Series Sunday at 2 p.m. CST in Hilton Coliseum. The dual is sold out. The meet will be televised live on Iowa Public Television and streamed online via a Clone Zone webcast at cyclones.com (IPTV feed). Live stats will also be available at cyclones.com
Cyclone Notebook
-This weekend's Hy-Vee Cy-Hawk meeting between Iowa State (6-0) and Iowa (4-0) marks the 73rd meeting between the two powerhouse programs.
-Iowa Public Television will carry the Iowa State versus Iowa dual. It will be the second consecutive weekend that the Cyclones will be televised live.
-Iowa State's (6-0) handed defending NCAA team champion Minnesota a 18-13 dual defeat Dec. 2 in Minneapolis at Williams Arena. The Cyclones snapped Minnesota's 23-dual win streak and handed the Gophers' its first home dual loss since 2005.
-In a showdown between the top-two ranked squads, Iowa State claimed its first victory over a No. 1 team as the second-ranked team since Feb. 23, 1986, when the Cyclones downed top-ranked Iowa 19-16 in Ames.
-For the first time since Dec. 1999, ISU has been named the No. 1 team in the country. The jump in the polls comes after the Cyclones defeated Minnesota.
-Five Iowa State grapplers carry spotless records: Nick Fanthorpe (133), Cyler Sanderson (157), Jon Reader (165), Jake Varner (184) and David Zabriskie (HWT).
-Through six duals, Iowa State has dominated its opponents, winning the team score by a combined total of 185-41. Individually, Cyclone grapplers have accumulated 452 points and have only given up 194, 101 of which are escapes. ISU has registered 133 takedowns and surrendered 37.
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