After a whirlwind weekend that started on Thursday and finished with a D-I champion crowned on Monday, it's about time to leave Gillette Stadium. Congratulations go out to Syracuse (D-I), C.W. Post (D-II) and Cortland State (D-III) for their 2009 national championships.

Now that the action's over, take a look at some of our favorite pieces from the five days to relive the NCAA's second-largest event this year (some 100,000 fans bought tickets to the games at Gillette this weekend, behind only the Men's D-I Basketball Tournament at Ford Field) now that it's in the books. And for more, just browse around the blog.

Thanks for being with us and we'll see you next year at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. In the meantime, keep up with us on twitter at http://Twitter.com/NCAALax09.

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Matt Kelly: Pi Enthusiast G'burg: All In The Flow The Big Red Pep Band The Kids Take Gillette D2/D3: Day Of Champs Orange, Like Clockwork J-Hops 25th Anniversary	Big Heart on the Big Red Pride of the Orange Bringing a Game Home The X-Factors Food As Change Devils Playing Loose Kenny Nims (2008 story)	Gallery: Orange Win It All Gallery: Saturday Semis Gallery: Friday Night Live Gettysburg Notebook Preview Podcast

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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:

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)

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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!

Lowe's just awarded its Senior CLASS Award for Men's Lacrosse at halftime of the first D-I semifinal, giving the award to Cornell's Max Seibald, also a Tewaaraton Trophy finalist.

The award recognizes a senior athlete who, by virtue of his work on the field, in the classroom and the community, represents the top student-athlete in the country.

Last year's Senior CLASS award-winner, Mike Leveille of Syracuse, went on to claim the Tewaaraton Trophy and the national championship with the Orange. Is Seibald destined for the same fate?

We spoke to him yesterday about being here and finding himself on the list for the Tewaaraton. 

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.

The Men's Lacrosse Championships at Gillette Stadium officially opened up with Media Day and the team dinners on Thursday, a day packed with wide-eyed players looking up at 69,000 vacant seats at Gillette, All-American attackmen sporting Lady Gaga sunglasses, a buffet that was designed for 500 people that was easily dispensed with by about 200 lacrosse players and coaches, a delayed flight from Durham, some Cornell-attire-bashing from John Kraft (president of the Kraft Group) and a lot more.

Check back later for video from Day One, including but not limited to tournament director Phil Buttafuoco explaining how Gillette '09 is going to blow away Gillette '08 and a Virginia defenseman counting out pi to almost 40 digits.

And also, stay tuned for a full wrap of the day and a story on a member of the Cornell team who, two decades ago, wasn't sure if he'd walk again.