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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://celticswire.usatoday.com/2020/04/04/missing-march-madness-kemba-walkers-uconn-wins-it-all-in-2011/\nMissing March Madness: Kemba Walker's UConn wins it all in 2011\nIn our penultimate installment of Missing March Madness, we find former UConn Huskies and current Boston Celtic point guard Kemba Walker reach the end of his historic run.\nHaving won ten straight games to get Connecticut to the national title game, the Bronx native would find himself facing the Butler Bulldogs, coached by his future coach in Boston, Brad Stevens.\nAs the future alles squared off for the battle, few could have predicted the defensive quagmire that would follow.\nIn the lowest-scoring title game in tournament history in the shot-clock era, Walker and UConn would emerge victorious — the final score just 53-41 and both teams shooting below 36 % from the floor and 28 % from deep.\nThe New Yorker would score 16 points and 9 rebounds in the triumph despite shooting 5-of-19 overall and 0-of-4 from three, completing what is arguably the most improbable NCAA title run in collegiate history.\nNext up on April 5th, our last installment of Missing March Madness arrives, featuring All-Star teammate Gordon Hayward and Butler in the title game one season prior.\nMissing March Madness: Hayward and Butler sneak past Michigan State\nMissing March Madness: UConn and Kemba Walker take down Kentucky\nMissing March Madness: Tremont Waters' Tigers fall to the Spartans\nMissing March Madness: Carsen Edwards vs. Grant Williams\nOn this day: Celtics forward Bailey Howell, center Patrick O'Bryant born\nOn this day in 1937, Celtic champion small forward Bailey Howard was born in Middleton, Tennessee.\nHowell, who played for the Celts for four seasons between 1966 and 1970, was drafted by the Detroit Pistons second in the 1959 NBA draft after playing his college ball at Mississippi State. He remained with the Pistons for five seasons until he was traded to the Baltimore Bullets along with Bobby Ferry, Les Hunter, Wali Jones and Don Ohl for for Terry Dischinger, Don Kojis and Rod Thorn. He would later come to Boston after being traded for in exchange for Mel Counts...\nOn this day: Celtic center Marty Conlon born; Frankie Sanders signed\nOn this day in 1979, Boston Celtic small forward Frankie Sanders signed with the team as a free agent after having been cut by the team that drafted him that very year.\nA native of Dayton, Ohio, Sanders played his college ball at Southern University and A&M College, from which he was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs with the 20th overall pick of the 1978 NBA Draft. He would play just 22 games for that club before getting in trouble with drugs and nightlife, finding the NBA much more challenging to function in than at the collegiate level where...\nOn this day: Celtic champ Robert Parish' Jersey retired; Burrough born\nOn this day in 1998, Boston Celtics champion center Robert Parish saw his jersey raised to the rafters alongside banners he helped win as his No. 00 was retired.\nIn in a ceremony at the halftime of a home game against the Indiana Pacers that was also Larry Bird's return to the city for the first time as head coach of that organization, Robert \"Chief\" Parish had his jersey raised to the rafters of the Fleet Center (now, TD Garden). The game was a homecoming of sorts, as besides return of Bird as coach of the Pacers,"