But yes, I could have read the prior posts.
Well, it was supposedly done so folks would get back to focusing on the ACCT a lot more instead of wondering about the NCAA pairings, plus give the committee the needed time to work our teams into their proper seedings instead of just "plugging" in our winner/loser. But when I was a senior in 1978, I believe we played Duke on a Saturday in an unusual step, skipped a day inbetween the semi's & finals for an ABC national broadcast. We played Duke in the finals with Rod & Frank & leaping Leroy McDonald. So that was a weird year in that it started with the quarters on Wed, March 1, semis Thursday March 2 and finals on Saturday afternoon March 4.