The University of Connecticut men's basketball team beat Illinois 71-62 on Saturday night in Indianapolis at the Final Four.

By winning, the Huskies will now play for their third national championship in four years on Monday night against Michigan, who rolled over Arizona in the other semifinal.

The game story is here, but here's what key UConn figures had to say after the contest.

 "Just obviously thrilled. There's no better feeling than being on that bus on Monday night, just being one of the last two teams standing, that bus ride to the stadium. It's just a cool experience.

I look forward to obviously the ability to max out the season to get to the last game, and then just Illinois, couldn't have more respect for them and their coach and their awesome players.

We're very selective with who we try to play in non-conference situations, whether they're home and homes or the series that we're now doing with Illinois. We only try to do series with the best programs in the country. They'll obviously have another crack at us in Chicago next year, but yeah, just couldn't be more proud of my guys and how hard they fought when most people probably didn't think we were going to win the game, or at least a little bit of what I saw on TV today, you know, TNT and some of the different prognostications.

So it was great to win the game. I had to throw some shade."

On what he's learned about UConn in his first year after transferring from Georgia:

"I think that's just a testament to the coaches just giving us confidence and setting a game plan for us to follow and I think us just going out there and being confident and the decisions we're making, the shots we're taking, I then think when it's winning time we try to connect as much as possible and have each other's back throughout the whole time.

I think even when they had that run like late in the second half we told ourselves we were fine, let's just respond, and I think we were able to do that."

On Alex Karaban:

"I think AK just holds the standard with this program. That's the guy you look up to on the court. He's been through it twice and just knowing that he has been through it twice, you can use him as an outlet.

I mean, to make history with Monday for him, I think that's what we're all trying to accomplish, and it would be so special for him."

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