It turned out Gonzaga got A-plus games back-to-back in the Final Four, and Baylor's A-plus game is outstanding. You have to be good and lucky to go undefeated.
I agree with you. They got one of Baylor's best games and didn't play close to their best. That's all that happened.
I heard talking heads on ESPN say that after watching the game that they thought that Baylor would beat Gonzaga 8 or 9 times out of 10. It was more than one person that said that. Really? The people who put their money where their mouth is had Gonzaga as a 4.5 point favorite based on a season's worth of results. Now, after one game, we suddenly think that Baylor is better than the second best team in the country by about 13 points (which is what an 85% chance of winning means)? Heck, 15 seeds beat 2 seeds about that often. I'm not even sure that Baylor would beat Ohio 85% of the time. They might. They probably would. But it would not be a lot more than that.
Sometimes I cannot believe what people read into just one game. One game is just a data point. Buffalo blew a healthy Ohio team out of our own building and broke a six game winning streak in the process. Ohio handed them an equivalent beatdown a couple of weeks later. How? Because stuff like that happens all the time. In beating Gonzaga, Baylor earned the championship. They MIGHT have even convinced they most in the know people that they are actually the best team and thus might be favored if they played again today. I'm not even totally convinced of that. But to suggest that they would beat the second best team in the country about 85% of the time and are thus far and away the greatest team ever is absurd.