All season long has built up to this moment. In less than 12 hours, Kentucky and Kansas will square off in the titanic clash for a national championship. It has taken John Calipari  only three years to bring UK to this plateau. And the culmination of what the program was like before him, to what it is now, is truly remarkable to relive the memories from this historic season. Kentucky is one game away from achieving it goal.

To try and help pass the time, here’s some local and national news stories on Monday’s national championship:

• Rivals.com/Dawson: Wildcats can almost taste that championship
• ESPN.com/Brennan: Breakdown of Kentucky’s key players
• CBS Sports/Goodman: Cats united in a hurry to become this good
• Sporting News/DeCourcy: As Anthony Davis’s confidence grew, so did his offensive game
• Lexington Herald-Leader/Story: With a title, UK’s freshman could be the best of all-time
• USA Today/Garcia: Kansas will be in for an uphill battle against Kentucky
• ESPN.com/Katz: Notes from UK and KU’s first matchup
• Courier-Journal/Bozich: Kentucky vs. Kansas; duel in the dome
• Boston Globe/Ryan: Title game pits a battle of elite programs
• Kentucky Sports Radio/Jones: Reasons why this is Kentucky’s year
• New York Times/Bishop: Darius Miller’s experience has held the Wildcats together
• Courier-Journal: Cats keys to victory tonight in New Orleans
• ESPN.com/Vitale: Two of college basketball’s elite programs square off tonight
• NBC Sports/Miller: Highest Final Four ratings in over seven years
• Sports Nola/Vangilder: Second-largest crowd in Final Four history
• CBS Sports/Parrish: Everything is suggesting, this is Kentucky’s title
• SportingNews/Steele: For Coach Cal and Coach Self, their’s a fine line between greatness
• Courier-Journal/Crawford: Cal, playing down the hype
• Sporting News/Steele: Withey will battle Davis down low for shot-blocking supremacy
• Vaught’s Views: Despite Kentucky’s talent, Kansas feels they can still play with them
• Vaught’s Views: Terrence Jones says Cal deserves title because of father like role
• USA Today/Wieberg: With the championship at hand, who’s college basketball’s best program?
• The Seattle Times/Kerkhoff: Kentucky-Kansas connection runs deep in to the history books
• Washington Post/Feinstein: Anything is possible for championship game
• NBC Sports/Miller: Terrence Jones returning for his sophomore year crucial for Cats