The Colorado men’s basketball team is taking care of business at crunch time.

The Buffaloes still need plenty of help in order to win the program’s first regular season conference championship since 1969. But with their home sweep of the Pac-12-leading Los Angeles schools, the Buffs’ 13 conference wins has matched the 1961-62 Big Eight champs for the most league victories in program history.

More importantly, after a few concerning weeks in late January and early February, the Buffs have the look of a team playing its best basketball going into March. Regardless of the scenarios that might allow CU to move up from the No. 4 seed at the Pac-12 tournament, for the Buffs the math is simple — everything requires a win on Thursday in the regular season finale against Arizona State (7 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU). Then the Buffs will have a full week to prepare for the tourney while their rivals continue to battle next weekend.

Saturday’s 70-61 win against UCLA moved the Buffs to No. 13 in Sunday’s NET rankings.

“We’ve got mature guys. If you hear them speak on Senior Night, they’re an articulate, smart bunch of guys,” CU head coach Tad Boyle said. “This is a team that rises to challenges. Every time they’ve been challenged, they’ve risen to it. The challenge now is to get healthy. Guys are nicked and bruised. We expended a lot of energy these last two games. We’re going to take a couple days off, get our bodies right. A couple short practices and hopefully Arizona State, we’ve got to take that seriously.

“And then we’ve got another week to practice and prepare ourselves for the Pac-12 tournament. We’ll find out who we play as the last weekend unfolds. But I love the way the schedule kind of sets up for us. Our guys did such a good job throughout the season — and most of our opponents did too — of staying healthy that we were able to play our games. And that allows us now, towards the end, to get a little bit of rest, get some quality practice time in, and stay sharp.”

Given the unbalanced schedule — CU is scheduled to complete its 20-game league schedule, while Oregon (18) and UCLA (19) will fall short of that — the Buffs need an improbable, but not impossible, turn of events to fall into place to sneak into the regular season title. Because winning percentage will determine the final order of the standings, a 13-5 Oregon team, for instance, would edge a 14-6 Buffs squad.

With a win against Arizona State, CU (13-6 Pac-12) would need UCLA (13-4) to lose its final two games and Oregon (11-4) to lose two of its final three, in addition to at least one loss by USC (13-5). The Buffs need USC to lose to Stanford on Wednesday, but defeat UCLA. Then they need Oregon to win at home against UCLA on Wednesday, but lose its other two games against Arizona on Monday and at Oregon State on March 7.

That’s a lot fingers to cross during the final week of the regular season. Still, the Buffs will finish no worse than third with a win against ASU and one loss by USC.

“We can control what we can control, which is the next game. For us now, it’s Arizona State,” Boyle said. “We need help for that (conference championship) to happen. We tricked off a couple losses earlier this year. We know that. Our fans know that. We’ve got to live with that and accept that.

“There’s a lot of basketball ahead for this team. We have one more regular season game. We’ve got to take care of business. It’s not going to be easy. Arizona State is a talented group. They can get it rolling. Then we have the Pac-12 tournament. I don’t know if any other team in the conference wants to play Colorado right now. We’re playing pretty good. We’re going to go to Las Vegas with the idea we have another opportunity to win a championship.”