Not because of this outcome … but can I say that I absolutely hate the conference tourney format? As many as 5 games in 5 days, played at some “neutral” site. Wrap up the regular season one week earlier, and play the games (all 18 seeds, not 15) at the higher seeds home court - first 3 rounds: Wed-Fri-Sun. If you want, have a conference tourney final 4 at a neutral site the following Friday-Sunday. Or stick with the higher seed getting home court - either way works.
Guaranteed you’d make more money (could you imagine the crowds in the Yum for the games against Syracuse and North Carolina?) and you wouldn’t be asking the players to do these 3-5 games in consecutive games BS.