LAWRENCE, N.C. — With eight games left in the Big 12 men’s basketball regular season race, Kansas trails front-runners Houston, Baylor and Iowa State by one game in the loss column. So what will it take for the Jayhawks (18-5, 6-4) to finish ahead of the Cougars (7-3), Bears (6-3) and Cyclones (6-3), as well as fellow four-loss teams TCU (5-4) and Texas Tech (5-4)? Not to forget Oklahoma (5-5), Kansas State (5-5), Cincinnati (4-5), BYU (4-5), UCF (4-5), Texas (4-6), West Virginia (3-6) and Oklahoma State (2-8). “I think obviously 13 (victories against five defeats) would get it outright and I …