re: NCAA Tournament = UCONN Invitational

these are two completely different scenarios

Zaga in 21 played a terrible conference schedule while not beating a team in the regular season that got past the 2nd round, didn't play higher than a 5 seed until the championship game, struggled with an 11 seed in the final four and needed a miraculous shot to avoid OT with said 11 seed

UConn in 24 are the defending champs after a tournament run where they absolutely dominated everyone in front of them, lost a ton of talent and all their starters, went on to beat 6 teams that got past the 2nd round, played in a tough and underrated BE which they won easily, and then rolled the Big Ten champ by 25 despite shooting 17 percent from 3 in the elite 8 after killing last years runner up the round prior