We are 6-5 with 18 games left to play. NCAA participation is pretty much out of consideration short of shocking the world and winning the BTT. In those last 18 games we MUST win 9 to have a winning season. A losing season could jeopardize our recruiting for the next 2-3 years and set back the rebuilding process or kill it entirely. Of the games left, we have 3 should be easy wins, 4 almost guaranteed losses and 11 tossup games of varying difficulty. We need to win 6 of the toss up games. Some like at Maryland are barely out of the sure loss category, but others like both games against UWisc and against Illinois we should be favored in but cannot take lightly. I don't know if we can make it to 15-14 honestly. I don't think UMinn is top half of the conference quality this year, and that loss is going to hang around our necks like a dead albatross the rest of the season, much like the loss to a poor Florida team.