So true, Devin Williams. So true. West Virginia isn’t out of the Big 12 race. In fact, the Mountaineers are very much in it.

Consider that with seven games to go, the Mountaineers play four games at home, including both games in a Saturday-Monday set, and one game each against the three teams at the bottom of the standings.

They’ve already played at Oklahoma and Iowa State and are the only team in the top six that doesn’t have a game left against Kansas, which displayed championship resolve at home against WVU and has now won four in a row to make another conference title a real possibility.

“I think were playing better,” Self said. “We had that dull stretch that I hope everybody else is going to hit in February.”

Yet the Jayhawks “probably have the toughest schedule of anybody left,” according to Self. They play at Oklahoma, at Baylor and at Texas and play host to Iowa State and have two Saturday-Monday sets, the first of which begins with Saturday’s game against the Sooners.

“With all due respect to Kansas,” WVU coach Bob Huggins said, “I don’t think anybody in this league sits around and thinks about Kansas all the time.”

I think we can cross Iowa State off the list of contenders after last night’s loss at Texas Tech, and I know it’s worth mentioing that WVU is the TeamRankings.com favorite to win the league. Again, that site’s been pretty reliable all season — it missed the Texas game, but who not in burnt Orange didn’t whiff on that one? — and it has WVU favored to win the final seven-regular season games.

Do that, and the Mountaineers win the league, probably outright. Go 6-1 and that’s almost certainly good enough for a share. The only time the Big 12 champ/co-champs had more than four losses? Last season.