Nineteen of the teams currently ranked in The Associated Press Top 25 poll will take the court Saturday as a stacked college basketball schedule takes center stage here in mid-January. The fun begins in Lexington when No.

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The No. 8 Kentucky Wildcats will try to take down another top team when they host the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide in a massive SEC showdown on

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Chris Beard has the Rebels playing well on both ends of the floor. Mississippi is 31st in the country in adjusted offensive efficiency per KenPom while ranking 21st in adjusted defense. Nobody can stop Alabama's high-octane offense at home, but the Rebels should at least be able to slow them down.

Kentucky is cooking, having dealt Florida its first loss of the season two weeks ago before pulling off hard-nosed wins against ranked conference opponents in Mississippi State and Texas A&M. The Wildcats’ loss at Georgia on Jan. 7 was a bummer, but the response was electric — 16-of-32 shooting on treys and 95 total points in a frenzied Starkville.