Tennessee Vols at Kentucky Wildcats Basketball Preview 2026
It's Hoops Time for Tennessee in the Bluegrass
Volunteers at Wildcats | Lexington, KY | Sat., Feb. 7, 8:30 pm EST | ESPN
Tennessee enters the game having won six in a row is a statement I could make if the Vols had not blown an 17-point lead against the Cats when these teams played in Knoxville a few weeks ago.
Since Jan. 10, these two teams are a combined 12-3, with UK going 7-1 and UT posting a 5-2 record over the last four weeks.
Kentucky’s SEC Preseason Player of the Year Otega Oweh has scored in double figures in each of UK’s 23 games this season, tying him with Kansas State’s PJ Haggerty for the most double-digit games in college basketball over the past two seasons.
Oweh’s eight 20-point games in SEC play this season is the most of any player in the conference, and he’s 26 points away from 1000 career points at Kentucky.
Rick Barnes is 4-4 against UK over the last eight years in Lexington. UT was 2-36 in Lexington the previous 38 years.
Tennessee’s Nate Ament has scored 17+ in each of UT’s last seven games, and 22+ in four of them.
Ament is averaging 22.1 points/game over the last seven, shooting 39.3% from three and 80% at the line, with an average of 9.3 made FT in those games.
