I disagree with this pretty strongly. Gonzaga has routinely gotten the benefit of a 1/2 seed despite playing in a poor talent truck stop conference and has rarely ever actually won anything of significance. Clemson, on the other hand...
I also think — this year aside, for being a truly terrible ACC year — clemson’s conference competition is much stronger than the WCC. And their nonconference games hold much more weight because they take up a greater percentage of their schedule.