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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Twenty-five years ago, Don Zimmerman took over a Johns Hopkins team that hadn't won the national championship in three years -- ages, back then, for Hopkins (and still somewhat so). He and his team then compiled one of the most memorable seasons in history, taking the 1984 national crown after blowing through the season.

On Monday, at halftime of the D-I championship, the 1984 team was honored, and we were there. Click on for the video!

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!

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:

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.

In one of the most unforgettable finishes in D-I Men's Lacrosse championship history, Syracuse came back from three goals down with 5:31 left in the fourth -- and one down with just seconds left -- to take a 10-9 OT win and notch its second straight national title. It's the Orange's 11th NCAA title in history.

Stay tuned for more!

OT
Cody Jamieson fires a shot past Myers from the right side. Game over. Orange win title.

Have to run down to the field -- follow the game from either our interactive bracket: http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2009/ncaa_bracket_DI_lacrosse_men.html or my twitter feed: http://twitter.com/Scheity.

4th Quarter
:04.5 - Unbelievable. Game tied, 9-9. With time expiring, Matt Abott took the ball in a crowd about 15-20 yards from the goal, then, sandwiched between defenders, lobs it over his head, no-look, to whoever was standing in front of the goal. Kenny Nims was, taking the pass and rolling a shot through Myers' legs.
2:46 - And here come the Orange. A loose ball ends up in Amidon's hands, who fires it to Jamieson for a goal from right outside the crease.
3:37 - Keogh just sunk his second goal of the day; Hardy with the assist -- 9-7, Cornell
5:31 - This might be the dagger. A goal from Roy Lang, shot from the left side of the net as he was falling over, makes the game, 9-6.
7:20 - On an EMO -- Cornell's seventh of the game -- the Big Red's Max Seibald whips in a goal from straight on, off an assist from Hurley; 8-6, Cornell now
13:51 - Syracuse pulls within one with a goal from Dan Hardy off an assist from Cody Jamieson

Note: Attendance today is 41,935 - 6th-largest in D-I men's history

3rd Quarter
:01 - Jake Myers made a nasty save on a shot from right in front of the net off Kenny Nims' pass over the crease
6:38 - On the EMO, Cornell's Hurley feeds Glynn for a point-blank goal - 7-5, Cornell
7:50 - Syracuse's Josh Amidon fires a shot in, making it 6-5 Cornell

Shots: Cornell 31, Cuse 21
GB Corenll 21, cuse 18
face-offs, Cornell 7, Cuse 7
Turnovers, Cornell 10, Cuse 9
Clears Syracuse 12-13; Cornell 12-15
Goalies: Galloway (Cuse) 9; Cornell (Myers) 6

Notes: Cornell outshot 'Cuse 23-11 in 2nd & 3rd quarters

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Gotta run down to the field for a piece on the 25th Anniversary team, but follow along with the game on our interactive bracket: http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2009/ncaa_bracket_DI_lacrosse_men.html

2nd Quarter
- 5:08 - Cornell's Rob Pannell gets onto the board with his 25th goal of the season, scoring unassisted - Cornell leads, 5-4
- 10:15 - And Syracuse storms right back, getting a goal from Pat Perritt, off an assist from Matt Abbott
- 11:38 - Rocco Romero just fired a bullet in from the right slot off an assist from Glynn - Glynn's 4th point on the day
- 13:14 - 'Cuse's Stephen Keogh just bounced a shot in, making it 3-3 -- 48th goal of the year ties Keogh for 9th in Syracuse history for single-season goals

1st Quarter
:21 - Fantastic Cornell goal by Ryan Hurley (45th of year) off a gorgeous feed to the doorstep from Glynn
2:44 left - Syracuse's Greg Niewieroski just slipped a shot in, then got levelled, to tie the game at 2.
8:00 - John Glynn's got two tallies already, the first on a rocket from about 15 yards directly in front of the net, the second on a top-shelf dagger from a few out after curling around the left side of the defense

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The teams are on the field, and the battle for the D-I national championship is off. Upstate rivals Cornell and Syracuse have been playing each other since 1920, and haven't missed a year since 1979. Should be a blast. Stay tuned for updates.

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)

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.

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.

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.

The YES Clinics, held at a variety of NCAA championship sites during the final rounds, made their way to Gillette Stadium on Sunday. YES, which stands for 'Youth Education through Sports,' is an NCAA initiative to spread the lessons gained through sports (teamwork, determination, learning how to fake the goalie high and score on a bounce low...the usual) to the younger generation.

On Sunday, hundreds of kids from all around the country -- we spoke to a group that featured one from Oneonta, N.Y., one from Atlanta, Ga. and one from parts unknown in Tennessee -- took the field at Gillette, as the YES Clinic moved to the actually championship-game surface for the first time, according to recently retired Air Force coach Fred Acee.

Check out this video from Sunday for more from Acee, YES Clinics director Tim Clark and more!