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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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.

Team Interviews: Gettysburg | Cortland State
Features: Upstate Pride | Gettysburg: Taking In The Bullets
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The Cortland State Red Dragons are the champions of Division III with a 9-7 win over Gettysburg. Behind 4-2 after the first quarter, the 2006 champs (and 2007/2008 runners-up) went on a tear, holding Gettysburg scoreless for two full quarters and 38:03 total minutes. With the win, the possible Upstate New York Sweep is one-third complete.

Brandon Misiaszek led the way for Cortland offensively, netting a career-high five goals, followed by Brian Krol with two. Both goalies shined, with Gettysburg's Zach Furshman making 12 saves and Cortland State's Matt Hipenbecker making 10.

The championship is Cortland State's second all-time. 

End of 4th Quarter:
Cortland State 9, Gettysburg 7
Gettysburg charged late, but it was not enough, as the Red Dragons finally broke through after two years of frustration.

End of 3rd Quarter:
Cortland State 9, Gettysburg 4
It's become the Brandon Misiaszek show for Cortland State -- with five goals, three in the third quarter, he's now at a career high. Gettysburg, on the other hand, hasn't scored since the first quarter, with Cortland State rattling off a 7-0 run.

Today's the first time in Cortland's last four title appearances that the Dragons have led after the first three quarters.

End of 1st Half:
Cortland State 4, Gettysburg 4
Two unanswered goals by Cortland State in the second quarter -- and a 9-2 edge in shots -- have this one tied up.

End of 1st Quarter:
Gettysburg 4, Cortland State 2
Kyle McGrath has two goals so far for the Bullets, who are out-shooting the Dragons, 12-7. The rest of the game is pretty tight, with the ground balls equal and Cortland taking a 4-3 edge in face-offs.

From the guys that brought you the internet phenomenon 90% of Lacrosse is in the Flow (click on the link for the full explanation of the secret weapon that's brought Gettysburg so much success this year, and here for the Facebook page), the very same Gettysburg Bullets who are out for the program's first-ever lacrosse title and the school's first-ever title in a men's sport, we bring you...notes. Lots of them.

It makes sense that a team with all that on the line (and, of course, the secret weapon) should have collected as many stories as it has en route to its first national championship appearance since 2002, when it fell to Middlebury.

So, refresh yourself on the Bullets before they take on Cortland State at noon on Sunday at Gillette. The game's airing live on CBS College Sports and can be followed live on our interactive bracket!

- En route to the championship game, two Bullets had to stomp on brothers. Goalie Zach Furshman downed his brother, Greg, a midfielder for Stevenson, in the national semifinals. A game earlier, midfielder Andrew Ryan saw his brother, Cy, go down with Denison in the national quarters.

- Staying on the family note, midfielder Rob Triplett's grandfather, William Triplett, played on the Johns Hopkins team that played in a demonstration game against the Canadian all-stars in the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

- More on grandfathers: Goalie John Gilfillan's grandfather, Charles Gilfillan, was an All-American at Duke and is now in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Sophomore Tommy Barnett's grandfather is Dick Vermeil; his cousing, Jack, plays for Gettysburg rival Washington College.

- Head coach Hank Janczyk is second all-time in NCAA men's lacrosse coaching victories, behind Salisbury's Jim Berkman.

- Midfielder Tommy Kehoe was named D-III Player of the Year, the first in program history for Gettysburg.

- Finally, the Bullets' athletic director, David Wright, is a Cortland grad

- Many thanks to Gettysburg SID Braden Snyder for the help on this one.

By Monday, all three national championship trophies could be making their way back to three schools separated by about 25 miles. And now, with lacrosse at an all-time high in popularity, the trifecta would bring the game back to one of its birthplaces.

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Theirs is the land of forever hills and tireless clouds, of a winter that arrives always too early and lasts far too long, of cornfields and trees and rust-wrapped mills. Onondaga and Cortland Counties are places famous for their natural beauty - sitting, as they do, on the northeast tip of the Finger Lakes region - but, like the rest of Upstate, routinely abused by outsiders, including their downstate neighbors in The City.

Said American singer Connie Francis: "There are some cities that I did take time out to study, because I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no."

Three hundred miles from Boston, with just three games remaining in the NCAA men's lacrosse season, this place has also become perhaps the most fertile land in lacrosse.

With defending D-I champ Syracuse at the center, the possibility exists that all three national championship trophies will make their way back to one 25-mile stretch in Central New York. On Sunday, in the D-II final, it'll be Le Moyne (located in Syracuse) playing for its third crown in four years, with Cortland State out for its second D-III crown in four years. And in Monday's D-I final, Syracuse takes on Cornell, a team a little outside the immediate region, but just over 50 miles from the Carrier Dome.