Joe Skaisgir, University of Arizona basketball player, on Jan. 20, 1961. Tucson Citizen file

 Tucson Citizen file

Joe Skaisgir, who was also Arizona’s top baseball player, scored a school-record 33 points in the first half and 44 in the game. The Wildcats were 6-7 and only 1,079 attended, leaving hundreds of empty seats in one of the top individual performances in school history. 

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