TEMPE, Ariz.— No. 5 Arizona State hosts No. 14 South Dakota State on Sunday, Nov. 26 at 12 noon, returning to Wells Fargo Arena after last week's "Grappling at Gammage" event.
Live scoring can be found on Trackwrestling while the match will be broadcast on the Pac-12 Network with Anthony Robles and Jason Knapp on the call.
The 2017 Pac-12 champions will also be honored as part of the day's festivities.
WHITE OUT
Fans are encouraged to wear WHITE to Sunday's match for a "White Out" match.
UP NEXT
After this week's dual, the Sun Devils have two tournaments in the month of December, the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational at the beginning of the month and the Midlands Championship at the end of the month.
SHIELDS AND VALENCIA EARN WEEKLY HONORS
Josh Shields (157) and Zahid Valencia (174), both undefeated on the season, were honored for their performances Nov. 10/12 as Shields was named National College Wrestler of the Week by The Open Mat and Valencia received the same honor from FloWrestling.
Within a week, Valencia defeated the previous No. 1 Mark Hall (Nov. 5) at the NWCA All-Star Classic as well as No. 4 Myles Amine (Michigan) and No. 3 Bo Jordan (Ohio State). Shields defeated No. 7 Alec Pantaleo (Michigan) and No. 5 Micah Jordan (Ohio State).
VALENCIA MOVES BACK TO NO. 1
After defeating reigning national champion Mark Hall (Penn State), 3-2, at the NWCA All-Star Classic on Nov. 5, Zahid Valencia moved back to No. 1 at 174 lbs. in several polls including Intermat, FloWrestling, and TrackWrestling.
ANTHONY ROBLES INDUCTED INTO ARIZONA SPORTS HOF
Anthony Robles, 2011 NCAA champion and ASU graduate, was inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday, Nov. 1.
The 3-time All-American and 4-time NCAA qualifier at 125 lbs. also finished his ASU career ranked eighth in wins (122) and 10th in dual wins (53), setting ASU career records for bonus-point victories (92) and technical falls (47).
In 2011, Robles capped a perfect 36-0 season and won a national championship by defeating the reigning champion, Iowa's Matt McDonough, 7-1, in the finals. That year, he was named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler.
Since graduating from ASU, Robles has become a motivational speaker, receiving the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance in 2011, and recently had the opportunity to narrate an ESPN E:60 episode on Wisconsin high school wrestler Zack Anglin, who was born with no hands or feet. Robles also returns to ASU on the Pac-12 Network broadcast team for wrestling matches, also part of ESPN's team for the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.
Robles is the third representative of Sun Devil wrestling to be named to the prestigious Hall of Fame after 1967 NCAA wrestling champion and Pro Football Hall of Famer Curley Culp (2002) and 1965 WAC champion, former president of USA Wrestling, and longtime supporter of ASU wrestling Art Martori (2014).
Joining Robles in the five-member class of 2017 are Arizona Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill, longtime sportswriter and current Cronkite School professor Paola Boivin, former Coyotes captain Shane Doan, and former NBA great and GCU head men's basketball coach Dan Majerle.
CHAMPIONSHIP REUNIONS IN 2017-18
On November 26, the 2017 Pac-12 Championship team will be honored while on January 20 vs. Oregon State, members of the 1988 NCAA National Championship team will return to Tempe to be honored as part of the dual for the 30th anniversary of the championship.
PAC-12 NETWORK BROADCASTS
Three of five Sun Devil home duals will be broadcast on the Pac-12 Network, starting with Sunday, Nov. 26 vs. South Dakota State as well as Pac-12 duals vs. Stanford (Friday, Jan. 19) and Oregon State (Saturday, Jan. 20) on back-to-back days.
GRAPPLING AT GAMMAGE
In a first of it's kind event, Arizona State took their home opener to a different venue, hosting Pitt on Sunday, Nov. 19 at ASU Gammage Theatre on the ASU Tempe campus.
"Wrestling has performed on the biggest stages in the world - the Coliseum in Rome, Times Square, the U.S.S. Intrepid on the Hudson River, and even NYC's Grand Central Station. Now we will make our own small part of history when we wrestle Pitt in one of Arizona's iconic buildings. It will be an excellent venue for wrestling and a historical event in ASU history and we're proud to be a part of it."
ASU Gammage was designed in partnership with then-President Grady Gammage and famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the mid-1950's. Though neither lived to see the blueprints take life, the building was completed in Sept. 1964 and is the only public building in Arizona designed by Wright.
The Gammage stage has welcomed a vast number of musical, artistic, and cultural talents over the years including B.B. King, Johnny Cash, and Elton John, a 2004 presidential debate, and numerous Broadway touring plays including The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, the Lion King, and more.