{"id":5330,"date":"2011-04-07T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2011-04-07T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:19:56","slug":"uconn-arrives-home-with-third-championship-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5330","title":{"rendered":"UConn Arrives Home With Third Championship Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STORRS, Conn. \u2014 <strong>Kemba Walker<\/strong> powered Connecti-cut to a third national title and in return, the school put the star guard\u2019s name and number on the wall of Gampel Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>It was a surprise moment during Tuesday\u2019s victory rally before about 7,500 rabid UConn fans who came to the arena to celebrate Monday night\u2019s 53-41 win over Butler, and chanted \u201c<strong>Kemba Walker<\/strong>,\u201d and \u201cOne more year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The junior playmaker, who averaged 23.7 points during the NCAA tournament, cried and pulled his championship hat over his eyes as a drape that covered his banner was pulled away. He became the 14th Connecticut player to join the \u201cHuskies of Honor\u201d wall &#8211; the first to receive the honor while he was still in school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a dream come true,\u201d <strong>Walker <\/strong>said. \u201cEvery kid wants his jersey or his number to be retired and this is pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STORRS, Conn. \u2014 Kemba Walker powered Connecti-cut to a third national title and in return, the school put the star guard\u2019s name and number on the wall of Gampel Pavilion. It was a surprise moment during Tuesday\u2019s victory rally before about 7,500 rabid UConn fans who came to the arena to celebrate Monday night\u2019s 53-41 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}