– Arizona Headlines Extremely-Anticipated Occasion with Marquee Matchup Towards San Diego State –
PHOENIX – Place Sports activities, in partnership with the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame, introduced the matchups for the 2025 Corridor of Fame Collection Phoenix on Saturday, December 20, at PHX Area.
Arizona vs. San Diego State
Colorado vs. Stanford
This occasion builds upon the success of the previous Corridor of Fame Collection matchups within the Valley, which have generated important native pleasure. Final 12 months, Arizona State and Grand Canyon’s males’s and girls’s groups squared off in entrance of a spirited, cut up crowd at PHX Area. The inaugural occasion in 2023 featured eight groups, together with each Arizona and ASU applications, in addition to then-third-ranked Alabama, which went on to achieve the Ultimate 4 at State Farm Stadium.
“We’re excited to convey the Corridor of Fame Collection again to Phoenix with an excellent doubleheader this December,” stated Melissa Meacham-Grossman, President of Place Sports activities. “Arizona vs. San Diego State guarantees to be a high-caliber matchup between two premier applications with passionate fan bases, whereas Colorado and Stanford will convey their former Pac-12 rivalry to PHX Area. This occasion continues our custom of showcasing elite school basketball within the Valley, giving Phoenix followers the chance to expertise high-level competitors in a world-class venue proper earlier than the vacation season.”
Followers can join presale info now at HOFSeries.com. Additional particulars concerning ticketing, recreation time, broadcast protection, and media credentials for the occasion can be shared at a later date.
The Corridor of Fame Collection, owned and operated by Valley-based Place Sports activities, is a premier assortment of multi-game, singular occasions that characteristic high collegiate basketball applications in high-profile non-conference matchups performed each domestically and overseas. Previous stops have included the next cities: Baltimore (2024), Charlotte (2023), Las Vegas (2023-24), New York (2024), Phoenix (2023-24), San Antonio (2023), and Toronto (2023).
For extra Corridor of Fame Collection info and updates, please go to HOFSeries.com or observe @HOFSeries on all social platforms.
Corridor of Fame Collection Phoenix
Arizona vs. San Diego State Collection Historical past
The Wildcats have received 5 straight conferences with the Aztecs and lead the general collection, 25-7. Arizona received the newest matchup as a part of the Maui Invitational on November 22, 2022 (87-70). San Diego State’s final win was on November 23, 2011, in Tucson (61-57).
Quotes from Head Coaches:
“We’re trying ahead to taking part in San Diego State in Phoenix this season as a part of the Corridor of Fame Collection. It’s one other alternative for us to play in opposition to an amazing program in an amazing ambiance that our program and followers take pleasure in. Reaching our followers in Phoenix is a precedence for us and video games like this present an amazing avenue to try this.”
Tommy Lloyd | Arizona
“Any time we’re capable of schedule a recreation in opposition to a group with the pedigree of Arizona and take part in a Naismith Corridor of Fame occasion, it’s a win-win for San Diego State. We’re trying ahead to the problem in Phoenix and know our followers can be within the stands supporting the Aztecs.”
Brian Dutcher | San Diego State
Colorado vs. Stanford Collection Historical past
The Buffaloes enter the matchup with a seven-game profitable streak and lead the all-time collection, 20-11. The previous convention rivals final met on March 3, 2024, in Boulder, the place the Buffaloes earned an 81-71 victory. Stanford’s most up-to-date win got here on March 1, 2020, in Palo Alto. The applications first met in 1932, and their final impartial website matchup happened in 1951 on the Massive Seven Christmas Event in Kansas Metropolis, Mo.
Quotes from Head Coaches:
“We’re trying ahead to collaborating within the Phoenix Corridor of Fame Collection and dealing with a high quality opponent in Stanford. Enjoying Stanford in late December will assist us put together for our Massive 12 Convention schedule. Our workers is conversant in Coach Smith and the improbable job he did at Washington State whereas we have been within the Pac-12, and we all know he has Stanford trending in an upward course. It will likely be an amazing take a look at for each applications.”
Tad Boyle | Colorado
“We’re thrilled to be a part of the Corridor of Fame Collection Phoenix. Colorado has been among the best applications within the West over the past decade. They’ve had nice postseason success and have produced a number of NBA draft picks, and they’re a well-known foe from the Pac-12. They’re led by a distinguished and honored coach who does issues the best means in Tad Boyle, and we’re excited to face them in Phoenix.”
Kyle Smith | Stanford
About Place Sports activities
Place Sports activities, established in 2005, is a premium occasion manufacturing and model advertising and marketing agency that focuses on occasion operations, activation growth, media relations, and digital engagement. Through the years, Place Sports activities has labored with lots of the world’s main manufacturers, together with Nike, Jordan Model, Purple Bull, the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame, ESPN Occasions, USA Basketball, Higher Deck, MLB, and T-Cell in practically each main U.S. metropolis and on a worldwide scale. Place Sports activities gives shoppers with the expanded strategic course wanted to reach the sports activities advertising and marketing area, also called Positioning. To be taught extra, go to positionsports.com or observe @positionsports on Twitter and Instagram.
About Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame
Situated in Springfield, Massachusetts, the town the place basketball was born, the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame is an impartial nonprofit 501(c)(3) group devoted to selling, preserving, and celebrating the sport of basketball at each degree—women and men, newbie {and professional} gamers, coaches, and contributors—each domestically and internationally. The Corridor of Fame museum is house to greater than 475 inductees and over 40,000 sq. toes of basketball historical past. Almost 200,000 individuals go to the Corridor of Fame museum every year to be taught concerning the recreation, expertise the interactive reveals, and take a look at their abilities on the Jerry Colangelo “Courtroom of Goals.” Finest identified for its annual marquee Enshrinement Ceremony honoring the sport’s elite, the Corridor of Fame additionally operates over 70 highschool and collegiate competitions yearly all through the nation and overseas. For extra info on the Basketball Corridor of Fame group, its museum, and occasions, go to hoophall.com and observe @hoophallU.
