If you want to see some non-#1 seeds in the Final Four, look no further than the women’s NCAA Tournament.

#2-seed LSU upset #1 North Carolina last night, and #2 Stanford upset #1 Maryland, to earn spots in the Final Four. The ACC is out, and Stanford is the first Pac-10 team to reach the women’s Final Four since 1997.

Admittedly, both #2 seeds were playing closer to home than their top-seeded opponents (LSU in New Orleans, Stanford in Spokane), and both had reasonable cases to be #1 seeds in their own right, so these are not exactly stunning results. Nevertheless, the women’s Final Four is officially less "chalky" than the men’s.

So, what does this mean for the 11th annual Living Room Times women’s basketball pool?

Well, it means Ian Auzenne and Rachel Wetherill, who started the
night in 18th and 21st place, respectively, are now first and second
after getting both games right. Everyone else in the previous Top 25
got at least one game wrong, and many got both wrong.

In addition to Auzenne and Wetherill, eight other contestants picked
both LSU and Stanford to reach the Final Four: Gerry deSimas (T-8th),
Greg Kagan (T-12th), Dan Port (23rd), Matt Wiser (T-26th), Jeff Vaca
(30th), Dave Whelan (T-33rd), Brendan Loy (w00t!) (37th) and Bonnie
Stone (52nd).

Yesterday’s results also mean that former leader Ken Stern drops to
third — and is mathematically eliminated from winning the pool. Stern
had picked Maryland to win the title.

Auzenne, Wetherill and a dozen other contestants remain
mathematically alive to win the pool. Tonight’s games — #1 Tennessee
vs. #2 Texas A&M at 7pm and #1 UConn vs. #2 Rutgers at 9pm — will
trim that 14-person list to somewhere between four and eight. Only Wetherill is
guaranteed to stay alive; everyone else could potentially be eliminated
tonight.

Auzenne, for instance, needs Rutgers to win. Jim Hu needs Texas
A&M to win. Jeff Freeze needs Tennessee to win. Gerry deSimas needs
UConn to win. A whole slew of contestants need both Tennessee and UConn
to win: Kevin Hauschulz, Kevin Pilz, Joshua Krause, Jeff Vaca and
Joseph Hiegel. Kristy McCray, on the other hand, needs both Tennessee
and Rutgers to win, while Chuck Wessell and Soren Hammerschmidt need
both Texas A&M and UConn to win. Last but not least, Lisa Velte
needs there to be an all-#2 seed Final Four: she’ll be eliminated unless both Texas
A&M and Rutgers pull upsets.

Interestingly, the best-case scenario
for Hauschulz, Pilz and Krause is a three-way tie for first place –
which will happen if UConn beats Tennessee in the national championship
game, a scenario that many of the pool’s Connecticut-based contestants (a group that includes Hauschulz, Pilz and Krause) are probably rooting for. If it happens, it would mark the second time in five years
that a UConn victory over Tennessee in the title game created a three-way tie in a Times women’s
pool. Coincidentally enough, the first time it happened, one of the co-champions was Kevin Pilz’s brother, Danny.

In
addition, that outcome would give Kevin Hauschulz his first-ever Living Room Times pool victory after competing in all but one of the 24 men’s and women’s pools since 1996.

Complete standings here and after the jump.

11th annual women’s NCAA pool
1. Ian Auzenne - 320
2. Rachel Wetherill - 318
3. Ken Stern - 316
4. Chuck Wessell - 313
5. Kevin Hauschulz - 311
5. Kevin Pilz - 311
5. Joshua Krause - 311
8. Jim Hu - 309
8. Tom Caputi - 309
8. Gerry deSimas - 309
–. *ALL FAVORITES BRACKET* - 309
11. Michael Rosenkrantz - 307
12. Greg Kagan - 304
12. Joseph Hiegel - 304
12. Carol LaPlante - 304
15. Soren Hammerschmidt - 303
15. Carolyn Blessing - 303
17. Bill Pancoast - 302
18. Jeff Freeze - 301
19. Josh Rubin - 300
20. F.X. McGahee - 299
21. Matt Kagan - 298
21. Don LaPlante - 298
23. Dan Port - 297
24. Gary Kirby - 296
24. Tyler Condon - 296
26. Mark Gardner - 294
26. Matt Wiser - 294
26. Rick Boeckler - 294
29. Colleen Duggan - 293
30. Jeff Vaca - 292
31. Sean Sullivan - 291
31. Jackie Wilson - 291
–. *AGGREGATE PICKS BRACKET* - 291
33. Dave Whelan - 290
33. Jeremy Gist - 290
35. Kay Torg - 289
36. Ken Wagner - 286
37. Brendan Loy - 285
38. Mike Wiser - 284
38. Leanna Loomer - 284
38. Gary Atkinson - 284
41. Steve Leys - 283
41. David Kreutz - 283
43. Kristy McCray - 282
44. Greg Plank - 281
45. Lisa Velte - 280
46. Scott Loomer - 279
46. Ryan Dalidowitz - 279
46. Stacey Dubois - 279
49. Randy Styles - 277
50. Scott Paine - 275
50. Pat Caplin - 275
52. Bonnie Stone - 274
53. Peter Timbrell - 272
53. Patrick Roach - 272
55. Kristy LaPlante - 271
55. Becky Loy - 271
55. Conor Sullivan - 271
58. Brian Dupuis - 270
59. Kevin Curran - 269
60. Matt Thomsen - 267
60. Rose Holden - 267
62. Brandon Minich - 262
63. Jay Johnson - 260
63. Steve Duvernay - 260
63. Chris Aemisegger - 260
66. Kelly Strutz - 259
67. Ted Zak - 257
68. Joanna Rubin - 256
69. Sandy Berman - 254
70. Amy Aemisegger - 252
71. Andrew Long - 250
72. Jeff Morrison - 249
73. Jennifer Elam - 245
74. M.T. Swanson - 241
74. Chris Bravo - 241
76. Bob Lutts - 240
77. Joyce Kohler - 239
78. Jessica Osborne - 238
79. Toby, Sasha and Butter Zak Loy - 228
79. Danny Pilz - 228
81. Weston Cross - 227
82. Katrina Lewonczyk - 226
83. Joe Loy - 222
84. Kim Stone - 211
85. Yvette Webster - 209
86. Ginny Zak - 208
87. Rosalie Town - 200
88. Jen Ham - 196
89. Loyette Loy - 168