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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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

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.