Arizona vs UCLA

Arizona Wildcats center Chance Comanche (21), left, talks with announcer Bill Walton, before the start of a game against UCLA at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star 

Bill Walton, a legend of broadcasting, basketball and life, returned to McKale Center on Saturday to call Arizona’s game for Pac-12 Networks.

For the first time in a long time, though, something was mysteriously missing: Walton’s famous tie-dye Pac-12 shirt.

Instead, Walton was wearing a plain black polo.

Huh?

A man and woman sitting behind Walton were both donning the shirts, and play-by-play man Ted Robinson joked — we think it was a joke — that the man swapped shirts with Walton.

Highly unlikely, considering Walton is a towering 7-footer, and this man was not.


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