IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa wrestling team travels to Ames to battle the Iowa State Cyclones for the annual Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series dual on Sunday at 2 PM at Hilton Coliseum. Televised on ESPN for the first time, ever.
Sunday’s dual will be the first regular season college wrestling meet to air on ESPN in the company’s 44-year history. Shawn Kenney (play-by-play), Jim Gibbons (color), Jordan Burroughs (color) and Quint Kessenich (sideline) will be on the call. Sunday’s dual will be available at AM 800 KXIC and audio streamed online at hawkeyesports.com (via YouTube). Steven Grace and Mark Ironside will call the action for Hawkeye Sports Properties, a property of Learfield.
Iowa has won the last 18 meetings over Iowa State with the Cyclones last win coming in 2004. The Hawkeyes are 12-0 with the Dan Gable Traveling Trophy on the line.
Sunday’s dual is the second straight in the series featuring two top 10 teams. 2022 was the first time since 2008-09. No. 1 Iowa faced No. 2 Iowa State twice during that season with the Hawkeyes coming out on top in both matchups.
Five Iowa natives are in the Hawkeyes probable lineup for the dual — Drake Ayala, Brody Teske, Aiden Riggins, Brennan Swafford and Bradley Hill.
Iowa State trounced No. 18 Wisconsin, 42-0, its last time out.
The Hawkeyes improved to 2-0 on the season with a 25-11 victory over No. 16 Oregon State on Nov. 19 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The Iowa-Iowa State wrestling rivalry introduced the Dan Gable Traveling Trophy in 2010. In a joint collaboration, the schools announced the winner of the annual dual would take possession of a trophy representing Iowa State’s former two-time NCAA champion and Iowa’s 15-time NCAA championship coach. Iowa has won every meeting since the trophy’s incep- tion (12-0).
THE SERIES
• Sunday is the 87th meeting in the all-time series that began in 1912 with the Hawkeyes leading 68-16-2. The Hawkeyes have won 18 straight, 33 of the last 34 and 57 of the last 61 meetings.
• Tom Brands is 17-0 all-time against the Cyclones as Iowa’s head coach.
• Sunday’s dual is the second straight meeting with both teams in the top 10 of the national rankings. 2022 was the first time since 2008-09. No. 1 Iowa faced
No. 2 Iowa State twice during that season — a regular season matchup and in the finals of the NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals. Iowa won the two meetings, 18-16 and 19-12.
• Iowa State’s last win in the series was 19-16 on Dec. 5, 2004, in Iowa City.
The Cy-Hawk Series is in its 19th season in 2023-24, be- ing sponsored for the 11th time by Iowa Corn. The schools are tied the 2023-24 Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series, 6-6, entering Sunday’s dual.
