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DIVISION I NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
No. 2 seed Syracuse (15-2) vs. No. 5 seed Cornell (13-3)
Monday, 1 p.m. | Gillette Stadium | ESPNHD/ESPN360.com

NCAA.com Interactive Bracket

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!

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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.
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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.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Scheitrum
The lacrosse editor for NCAA.com, Kevin is covering his second Championship Weekend at Gillette Stadium. A lot has changed since last year for the native Pennsylvanian and BU grad: The Phillies won the World Series, BU won the Men's D-I Hockey national title and he discovered half-priced sushi.

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