Kansas baseball slides in rankings after tough week

Kansas baseball had a rough week at the plate and in the standings. A seven-day stretch that included four defeats pushed the team out of the top ten in the latest USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll. The Jayhawks entered the past week ranked ninth with an overall record of 37 wins and 15 losses. But losses to Creighton and a home sweep by West Virginia erased that momentum. West Virginia, the team that did the sweeping, now sits at eleventh in the same poll. Kansas now stands seventeenth.Kansas still leads the Big 12 conference with a one-game advantage over West Virginia. Arizona State and Oklahoma State are also in the mix, sitting at twenty-two and twenty-three respectively. The Jayhawks have a three-game cushion ahead of both teams and UCF. This means the regular season title is still within reach, but only if Kansas can turn things around quickly. One more slip could hand the title to West Virginia or hand tiebreakers over to another competitor. Looking ahead, Kansas plays its final regular season road series against BYU. The three-game set starts Thursday and runs through Saturday. The stakes are high, with the Big 12 title still up for grabs. A strong finish could secure an outright championship, while a weak finish might leave Kansas in second place.