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Gorgui Dieng swatted away the West Region's top seed to send Rick Pitino into another regional final.

All anyone can talk about regarding North Carolina is the status of Kendall Marshall, quite obviously. The sophomore point guard fractured a bone in his wrist in Saturday’s round of 32 win over Creighton, and while he had surgery on Monday morning, it is unclear whether or not he will actually be sitting out or if my some miracle of modern medicine he’ll be able to get on the court.

Instead of parlaying an historic day of upsets into a second weekend filled with small schools, the NCAA tournament now looks like a who's-who of major college programs.