OMAHA, Neb. -- Bob Gibson, one of the greatest athletes in Creighton Athletics history, died on Friday night at the age of 84 after a bout with pancreatic cancer.
Born in Omaha in 1935, Gibson attended Omaha Tech High School before enrolling at Creighton.
He starred in both baseball and basketball with the Bluejays, and finished his college career in 1957 third with 1,272 career points (he's currently 22nd). He remains in the top-five in CU history in free throws made (418), free throw attempts (575) and scoring average (20.19 ppg.). Many of his baseball stats are Creighton have been lost to history, though recent research found an old Omaha World-Herald article with his stats from 1957 (.