With 4 wins Kansas has gained 0.5 games in the standings. There are 6 critical games for KU in conference play that will dgive them an opportunity to ascend They are the road games against the top 4 teams (West Virginia, Baylor, Iowa St. and Texas Tech) and home games against West Virginia and Baylor. All of those games are still to be played. High probability of win games offer much less chance to gain ground but much better chance to lose ground. KU has held serve on their 1st 4 games which were games 8, 13, 15 and 16 in terms of toughest probabilities. Our conference schedule has been relatively easy thus far. We still have the 7 toughest games to come.