I think that it is fair to say that both teams played equally last night and had an equal fan support.
With that being said, the only other determinant factor was the referees. There was a stat posted earlier about the freethrow situation, which was a heavily lopsided proportion, 27-10 favoring Elliott Co. (Not to mention that 2 of the 10 for East came from an assessed technical foul). So basically you can reduce that to 27:8, which is more than 3:1.
I thought one ref was #1 rated in the region and another did a lot of college basketball games? Surely, he doesn't call those games like that...