The stadium's empty at Gillette, except for the cleaning crew weaving its way through the 41,935 abandoned seats -- the sixth-largest crowd in D-I championship history. So, it's time for some notes:

The Syracuse Orange completed one of the greatest comebacks in NCAA championship history on Monday. Click 'more' below for a field-level look at the Orange as they celebrated their second straight national title.

After four days in Foxborough, the action wraps up with the highest prize in college lacrosse being awarded on Memorial Day. As you prep yourself for face-off, use this hub for all your championship-day needs, with links to all of the footage, features and more that we've brought you all weekend. And stay tuned for more as the day goes on, including a feature on the 25th Anniversary Team!

Cornell comes into Monday after pulling off one of the biggest wins in program history, downing No. 1 seed Virginia, 15-6. Led by a defense that's held its last two opponents to 10 total goals and an offense that caught fire against UVA, the Big Red's riding high.	Syracuse, the defending national champs dismantled Duke, 17-7, in Saturday's national semifinals. Led by a contingent of seniors who have seen the program go from 'the lowest of lows' to new heights, the Orange have been electric all year long.
Video: - Tewaaraton Quartet (Max Seibald) - Band on the Run: The Big Red Pep Band - Saturday Overview/Cornell Presser - Cornell Sunday Press Conference Features: - A Big Heart On The Big Red - The X-Factors Notes & Quotes: - Cornell/Virginia - Syracuse/Cornell (Sunday)	Video: - Tewaaraton Quartet (Matt Abbott) - Saturday Overview/'Cuse Presser - 'Cuse Sunday Press Conference Features: - Pride of the Orange - Bringing a Game Back Home - Kenny Nims Profile (2008 piece) Notes & Quotes: - Syracuse/Duke - Syracuse/Cornell (Sunday)

For every video shot during the weekend (now at 14 and counting), go to http://www.ncaa.com/ot/mlax.html. For more from the Tournament, check out ncaa.com.

Cortland State and C.W. Post are the D-III and D-II national champions, and you can watch highlights from their days -- and their celebrations -- right here. Click on for full video.

Syracuse's senior class leaves behind a legacy marked both by a painful fall and, more importantly, a brilliant rise.

The cover of Inside Lacrosse's 2005 recruiting issue featured the magazine's second, third and fourth-ranked recruits, all three staring out at the camera and into three futures that looked, at the time, like perfection. All three were in Orange.

Four years later, those three men, Syracuse's Kenny Nims, Pat Perritt and Dan Hardy, are All-Americans - Nims, the country's leading scorer, on the second team with Hardy, and Perritt on the third team; And on Monday, they and eight other seniors will walk onto the Gillette Stadium field for their final game in Orange, taking on Cornell in the D-I national championship game. It's a chance to end a career that could have gone so wrong - and for a time, did, with the Orange hitting an almost unprecedented trough in 2007 - by clinching the team's second straight national championship, a feat that hasn't been accomplished by Syracuse since 1990, when the Orange finished a string of three straight titles under legendary coach Roy Simmons, Jr.

The YES Clinics, held at a variety of NCAA championship sites during the final rounds, made their way to Gillette Stadium on Sunday. YES, which stands for 'Youth Education through Sports,' is an NCAA initiative to spread the lessons gained through sports (teamwork, determination, learning how to fake the goalie high and score on a bounce low...the usual) to the younger generation.

On Sunday, hundreds of kids from all around the country -- we spoke to a group that featured one from Oneonta, N.Y., one from Atlanta, Ga. and one from parts unknown in Tennessee -- took the field at Gillette, as the YES Clinic moved to the actually championship-game surface for the first time, according to recently retired Air Force coach Fred Acee.

Check out this video from Sunday for more from Acee, YES Clinics director Tim Clark and more!

Interview with Tournament Most Outstanding Player Greg Cerar

End of Game
C.W. Post 8, Le Moyne 7

Le Moyne had the ball with 40 seconds left, but a kick-save by C.W. Post goalie Daniel Sciulla -- who had a tremendous fourth quarter -- preserved the game for the Pioneers, as second-seeded Post avenged a 6-5 loss earlier this year with an 8-7 win in the national championship game.

End of 3rd Quarter
C.W. Post 7, Le Moyne 5
The clouds are rolling in, and the rain's started to fall again. Should be a pretty wild fourth quarter.

End of 1st Half
C.W. Post 4, Le Moyne 3

After all that -- after three goals in the opening three minutes and six in the first quarter -- only one followed in the second, with Le Moyne sneaking in a tally. C.W. Post was about .5 of a second away from scoring at the end of the frame, but the horn blew with a shot in the air (a shot that eventually went in). Le Moyne goalie Doug McIver is keeping the Dolphins in the game, making nine saves through two periods, even as Le Moyne's getting heavily out-ground-balled and outshot.

CW Post 21, Le Moyne 15
Saves: CW Post 3, Le Moyne 9
Ground balls: C.W. Post 22, Le Moyne 11


End of 1st Quarter
C.W. Post 4, Le Moyne 2
CW. 12 shots on goal, Le Moyne 7

Before we had a chance to even post that the game had begun, Le Moyne's Brian Welch scored off an assist from Jack Venditti just 12 seconds in to give the Dolphins a 1-0 lead over C.W. Post.

...of course, then C.W. Post came back to score two straight goals. Already, just 3:33 into the game, we've got three goals. This could be a big one.

Before Cornell and Syracuse meet in Monday's national championship game, players and coaches from the Big Red and Orange met with the media on Sunday.

For video links, click here: Syracuse | Cornell
For transcripts, click here: Presser Transcripts

Stay tuned for tonight's Championship Game Prep Package, where we'll give you everything you need to know for Monday's final.

All season long, the Cornell Big Red Pep Band has boomed out at Cornell men's lacrosse games -- among others. So, it just seemed natural that they'd follow the Big Red to Gillette Stadium. And, over there, shaking section 142 -- as the only band to come to the Championships in the past two years -- they were the loudest part of one of the biggest wins in Cornell lacrosse history.

Watch the video here, and stay tuned for more coverage as the championships roll on.

Saturday featured two blowouts in D-I. But two very, very unexpected blowouts, as Syracuse hammered a Duke team that hadn't lost since mid-March, 17-7 and Cornell took down the top-seeded team in the Tournament (Virginia) with a 15-6 pummeling.

Check out our footage from Saturday, including pressers from all four teams and finishing with Cornell celebrating its epic upset. And for all the videos from the weekend at Gillette, head to http://www.ncaa.com/ot/mlax.html.

The D-I semifinals have finished, the press conferences aired, so take a look to see what happened on the field and what was said off of it.

For Cornell/Virginia Notes & Quotes, click here.
For Syracuse/Duke Notes & Quotes, click here!

Two D-I semifinal games are on the schedule at Gillette today, with Duke-Syracuse already underway and Virginia-Cornell scheduled to start at 2 p.m. For more from the games, check out our (very cool) interactive bracket http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2009/ncaa_bracket_DI_lacrosse_men.html.

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Duke-Syracuse Updates
Syracuse wins, 17-7
- Syracuse posts most goals in a semifinal game since 2006
- Margin of victory of 10 is biggest in Duke postseason history and biggest in the national semis since 2003

End of 3rd Quarter
Syracuse up, 14-6
Kenny Nims has a hat trick. Pat Perritt has a career-high four goals. 'Cuse dominating in all aspects of the game right now.
-- Duke hasn't allowed this many goals since April 3, 2004

End of 1st Half
Syracuse carries an 8-4 lead into the half.

A few notes:
- That eight goals are tied for the most that Duke's allowed in the first half this year.
- Syracuse's Pat Perritt has three goals already, tying his career-high.
- Zach Howell has two goals for Duke

End of 1st Quarter
Syracuse's Kenny Nims scored with less than a second left on the clock to end the quarter and give the Orange a 4-2 lead going into the second

Alex Cocoziello was told he'd never walk again after an accident split his skull when he was three years old. Today, roaming the sidelines, he's one of the central figures on the Cornell lacrosse team that's out for its first national championship game berth in more than 20 years.

FOXBOROUGH, MASS. -- For nine months, Sharon Cocoziello dozed through her nights in a hospital chair. Every day, she'd sit beside her son, Alex, as he healed from head trauma that doctors estimated would leave the right side of his body paralyzed forever. Every night, she'd fight the nurses who told her she had to go home. She would, invariably, win.

"I never left," she said. "They didn't want me there. Parents weren't allowed to sleep over. They had to change the rules after seeing how he progressed because I was there."

When Alex Cocoziello was rushed into emergency brain surgery 18 years ago, the three-year-old's cranium split open after his father accidentally hit him on the downswing with a golf club, doctors told Sharon that Alex had a 30 percent chance of surviving the surgery. After that, they told her Alex's right side would be paralyzed forever, that the Cocoziellos should prepare their house for a permanently handicapped child.

She fired them.

Last year, Gretchen Meltzer's team underestimated things. Badly, Meltzer, the direct of catering at Gillette Stadium, said.

In 2008, in the first year that the Men's Lacrosse Championships took place at Gillette - the first time that any lacrosse game at all took place at Gillette, home of the New England Patriots - the caterers planned for about 240 people at the welcome banquet, she said. There were a little under 200 people eating.

"They ate us out of house and home last year," Meltzer said with a laugh. "You watch five plates go by, and then they come back for more."

This year, roughly the same amount of people showed up to the banquet. The caterers planned for 400.

Just a few hours from now, we'll be at Media Day at the Lacrosse Championships at Gillette Field, where all eight teams -- players, coaches, SID's, pets -- will be on the field, ready to tell their stories, at least when they're not staring up in awe at the Gillette stands. It's a great time. Here, Ryan -- our intrepid video guy -- and I are going to be shooting a ton of features, gathering lots of stories for the blog and, with any luck, eating some cheddar Goldfish in the press room.