UK will play Kansas in Monday’s national championship game after the Cats beat Louisville 69-61 and the Jayhawks beat Ohio State 64-62.

Think you had enough storylines leading into UK’s Final Four showdown with the Cards? Get ready for plenty more in this one. Just a few to start:

• It will be a championship rematch between Kentucky coach John Calipari and Kansas coach Bill Self. The two met in 2008, when Calipari’s Memphis team lost to Self’s Kansas team 75-68 in overtime after leading by nine points with 2:12 remaining. Remember the Mario Chalmers shot that got Calipari fired up on SportsCenter a few years back? Yeah, it’s here again.
• It will be a rematch of UK’s second game of the season. The Cats beat Kansas 75-65 on Nov. 15 in Madison Square Garden. That seems like decades ago, not the beginning of this season. What I remember: UK was tied at halftime before showing off its dazzling promise in the second half. Now, UK has lived up to that promise. And somehow, a Kansas team that returned one starter will be opposite it for the title.
• It will be a showdown between the two players considered to have run 1-2 in the national player of the year race throughout the season, Anthony Davis and Thomas Robinson. In their first meeting, Davis recorded 14 points, six rebounds and seven blocks. Robinson had 11 points and 12 rebounds. So far, Davis has been a huge winner in the player of the year race, winning every one. But he’s been saying all year the ultimate award is that trophy. Who will get it?
• It will be the winningest program of all-time (Kentucky, 2,089) against the second-winningest team (Kansas, 2,070). The Wildcats have seven national titles; the Jayhawks have three. “It’s pretty cool,” Kansas coach Bill Self said of having two historic programs that combine for 4,159 wins meeting for the title.