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Walk onto the field with us as Syracuse celebrates its second straight national title in one of the most exciting finishes in D-I Lacrosse Championship history. Click here for the video!
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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.

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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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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.
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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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