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Notre Dame is a battle-tested team, and most importantly, the Fighting Irish has averaged 12 goals per game in its recent six-game winning streak. But Duke won the national title over the Fighting Irish in 2010, and the defending champions have won 12 of their last 13 games.

In its run to the NCAA tournament final this season, the Notre Dame men's lacrosse team has beaten every Atlantic Coast Conference team except one. And the sixth-seeded Fighting Irish (12-5) will get a shot at redemption when it faces top-seeded Duke (16-3) on Monday at 1 p.m. at M&T Bank Stadium.

Here are a few tidbits from top-seeded and reigning national champion Duke's news conference at M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday morning.

Here are a few tidbits from sixth-seeded Notre Dame's news conference at M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday morning.

By virtue of having a higher seed, sixth-seeded Notre Dame was considered the home team in Saturday¿s NCAA tournament semifinal. It didn't feel like that.

At 5 feet 8, 170 pounds, Notre Dame's Matt Kavanagh was one of the smallest players on the field Saturday in his team's semifinal matchup with No. 7 seed Maryland, which has the nation's top-ranked scoring defense. But the sophomore attackman's stats from the game showed just how big he can be.

In coach John Tillman's four-year tenure, the Maryland men's lacrosse team had twice reached the national semifinals, and each time it moved on to the title game.

"A couple more nights in the greatest city in the world." Those were the words shouted by a Duke player in an M&T Bank Stadium tunnel moments after the Blue Devils' 15-12 victory over Denver in Saturday's NCAA men's lacrosse Final Four matchup.

Baltimore officials are bracing for periods of heavy traffic around the Inner Harbor and near Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium Saturday as several high profile events draw thousands to the city.

Here are a few factors that could play a role in the outcome at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.

Come Monday, Duke's Casey Carroll hopes to play the game he loves while saluting the sacrifices he and others have made for their country. When better than Memorial Day for a former Army Ranger to end his college lacrosse career in the NCAA championship game?

The Maryland and Notre Dame men's lacrosse teams entered the season having played five times in their histories.

Loyola Maryland senior defenseman Joe Fletcher became the first player in program history to win one of the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association's major awards Friday, earning the William C. Schmeisser Award as the nation's best defensive player.

If as Duke wins another national championship in men's lacrosse Monday at M&T Bank Stadium, then we can start talking about dynasty.

There's a long list of goalies who have left the Maryland men's lacrosse team without winning the sport's ultimate prize.

For years, the Notre Dame men's lacrosse program was known for building strong defenses that helped grind out tight wins.

Maryland's national women's lacrosse semifinal matchup with Northwestern on Friday pits two of the top draw control experts.

Previewing the men's lacrosse semifinal matchups

Notre Dame men's lacrosse reflects on journey from flirting with elimination to reaching Final Four

Charlie Raffa's problematic knee a concern for Maryland men's lacrosse

Q&A with ESPN's Mark Dixon

A day after he won the Preakness, California Chrome's trainer Art Sherman said that a New York rule prohibiting nasal strips 'might be an issue' for his horse in the Belmont Stakes.

Salisbury routs Augustana, 16-3, in the third round of the Division III women's lacrosse tournament.

The Fighting Irish (11-5) will meet seventh-seeded Maryland in one semifinal at M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday. The Terps (13-3) blasted Bryant, 16-8, in the first contest of the doubleheader.

The Maryland men's lacrosse team beat Bryant at its own game.

Although there's no live hitting in spring practices, that didn't stop Ravens defensive end Kapron Lewis-Moore from manhandling rookie offensive tackles Saturday.

The 2014 NCAA women's Division I tournament looks more like the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament 2.0 than a national tournament.

Previewing the NCAA men's lacrosse quarterfinals

Q&A with ESPN's Mark Dixon

Even after fighting back to tie the game in the fourth quarter, host No. 2 seed Syracuse could not break through against Bryant, which never trailed en route to a 10-9 upset on Sunday night.

Taylor Cummings (McDonogh), Kelly McPartland and Beth Glaros (Wilde Lake) each notched a hat trick, and the host Terps allowed one goal over the final 33:38 in a 13-5 win over No. 13 Penn.

No. 5 Denver started a four-goal run late in the first quarter and led visiting North Carolina 5-1 at the break in a 9-5 Division I first-round win Saturday.

The Maryland men's lacrosse team avoided the indignity of becoming the second seeded team to fall in Saturday's first round of the NCAA tournament – barely.

Loyola Maryland punched its ticket to the second round of the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament with a 10-4 win over Massachusetts (18-2) on Friday night, pulling away by scoring six of the game's seven second-half goals.

Maryland¿s Taylor Cummings and Megan Douty are among the five finalists announced Thursday for the women¿s Tewaaraton Award, given annually to the best player in college lacrosse.

The former Delaware defenseman, who can be followed on Twitter via his account @EvanWashburn, took a spin through the 18-team field of the NCAA tournament.

Loyola Maryland's women's lacrosse team jumps back into the media poll Top 10 in the final regular

Former Johns Hopkins midfielder Mark Dixon offers his analysis of 18-team field for NCAA men's lacrosse tournament.

Unlike a year ago when the Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team was left out of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1971, nerves were not an issue when the 18-team field was unveiled Sunday night.

The Atlantic Coast Conference, led by overall No. 1 seed Maryland, dominated the top spots in the NCAA Division I women's championship bracket announced Sunday night, with six teams among the eight seeded spots in the 26-team field.

Albany defeats UMBC for the second straight year in the America East men's lacrosse championship game, 20-11, on Saturday in Stony Brook, New York

No. 11 Loyola Maryland women's lacrosse team as No. 2 host Syracuse scored the last five goals and won in overtime, 14-12, on Saturday.

Home is where the Maryland men's lacrosse team wants to be for the first round of the NCAA tournament, and the No. 7 Terps might have ensured that scenario with a 12-6 victory over visiting Navy on Saturday.

Sitting Mike Chanenchuk vs. Navy a consideration for Maryland men's lacrosse coach John Tillman

Loyola and Notre Dame became the first two teams to lock up berths in the upcoming NCAA men's lacrosse tournament, and their entries have already begun to shape the 18-team field, which will be announced on Sunday at 9 p.m.