The lacrosse team, known as the Nationals, had been embroiled in a dispute with the British about using tribal passports instead of ones issued by the United States or Canada.

The team remains stranded at a Comfort Inn in Queens, denied visas by the British government and growing increasingly doubtful that it will be able to compete in the tournament at all.

The Iroquois national lacrosse team received permission on Wednesday from the State Department to travel on tribal passports, but England refused to grant visas.

Team officials expressed optimism that the State Department might still agree to allow them to get to the world lacrosse championships in England.

The Iroquois helped invent lacrosse, but a passport dispute could prevent them from competing in the world championships.

John Danowski, whose father, Ed Danowski, was a football player and coach, has used his father’s model for guidance in reassembling the Duke lacrosse program.

The victory gave Duke its first lacrosse title, breaking up the monopoly that Syracuse, Princeton, Johns Hopkins and Virginia had held on the sport.

The top-seeded Terrapins overcame an early six-goal deficit to defeat the second-seeded Wildcats in front of 9,782 fans, an N.C.A.A. women’s lacrosse record.

The No. 5 Blue Devils’ victory in the final seconds pushes them to the title game against unseeded Notre Dame in a matchup of teams looking for their first championship.

The Cavaliers, still in mourning after the killing of Yeardley Love, were eliminated from the N.C.A.A. women’s lacrosse tournament by North Carolina.

Members of the West Point lacrosse team used the discipline they learned in preparing for war to engineer an upset of the defending N.C.A.A. champion.

When East Side High in Newark added lacrosse as a team sport four years ago, many players had never heard of the game before.

Sharon Love sat in the stands Sunday wearing a blue-and-orange ribbon with angel’s wings, as Virginia won its first game since here daughter Yeardley Love was found dead.

Playing for the first time since a team member was charged with murder, the Cavaliers routed Mount St. Mary’s.

The N.C.A.A. tournaments begin next weekend, and the Virginia teams, with a men’s player charged with first-degree murder in the death of a women’s player, will surely be the defining stories.