The entire season has come down to this: UConn and San Diego State will play for the national title, just like everyone expected.

By "everyone," we of course mean the 0.04% of brackets in ESPN's Men's Tournament Challenge that picked the Huskies to face the Aztecs in the final. To the owners of those 7,201 brackets, well done. As for the rest of us, some 20 million strong, we at least get what should be a great game to watch. Enjoy and remember.

On Monday night, the 4-seeded Huskies will play for their fifth championship -- and their first since 2014 (also won in the state of Texas, it should be noted). Should they win, they would tie Duke for the most titles since 1985. They've been on this stage before.

The Aztecs? Not so much. This season saw the No. 5 seed advance to its first Elite Eight, Final Four and now national championship game in program history. Should Brian Dutcher's team win, it would be the second time in history a first-time Final Four team won a national championship (UConn did it in 1999), and the first time a 5-seed took the trophy. A lot of records are at stake.

In advance of Monday's meeting for a chance at history (for either team), ESPN's team of Myron Medcalf, Jeff Borzello, John Gasaway and Joe Lunardi discussed how it could all play out at NRG Stadium.

Where does this rank among NCAA tournaments all time?

Borzello: I don't know exactly where it would rank, but I think it has had a little bit of everything. It had three game-winning shots in the final seconds in the first round, it had a true buzzer beater from Lamont Butler to advance San Diego State to the title game and it had upsets and Cinderellas galore. For those bemoaning the lack of traditional powers making deep runs ... well, no program has been more successful in March over the past 25 years than UConn. There's a relative lack of NBA star power in the Final Four, but outside of Alabama's Brandon Miller, most of the projected top 10 NBA draft picks were not expected to make deep tourney runs. Jordan Hawkins is a first-round pick, Matt Bradley and Adama Sanogo are great college players, Donovan Clingan and Andre Jackson Jr. will get drafted. For me, the tournament has been great.

Gasaway: To me, tournaments come in types. With a No. 4 filling the role as this year's highest remaining seed and as our potentially so-called "great team," this year feels reminiscent of Final Fours like 2006 (the first Florida title), 2011 (UConn with Kemba Walker) and 2014 (the Huskies with Shabazz Napier). The difference between then and now is that those champions felt a bit more surprising than a UConn title would be this year. The other difference is perhaps that a San Diego State national championship would be a somewhat more startling development. Yes, the Aztecs are a No. 5 seed, while UConn in 2014 was on the No. 7 line. Still, the fact that this year marks SDSU's first ever Elite Eight (much less Final Four) appearance underscores how special this run has really been. This tournament already ranks as one of the modern era's most delightful and salutary surprises.