At stake for UK: the No. 2 seed in the SEC East, and a first-round bye in the SEC Tournament.

What needs to happen for that to happen:

1. UK must win at Tennessee on Sunday.

2. Either Vanderbilt (playing at home against Florida) or Georgia (playing at Alabama) must lose on Saturday.

That’s because UK holds the tiebreaker edge in a two-way tie (it has the best record against SEC East teams), but Vanderbilt holds the edge in a three-way tie (because they are 3-1 against the teams it’s tied against).

Vanderbilt and Georgia both play Saturday, meaning UK will know whether a win would get them the bye when they take the court against Tennessee.

It’s definitely a goal. The bye means UK would have a maximum of three games in three days, as opposed to four games in four days.

“We’re just trying to get that bye in the tournament,” Terrence Jones said.

UK currently sits in a three-way tie for the No. 2 seed in the SEC East with Georgia and Vanderbilt. All three have a 9-6 conference record.

Whether Georgia or Vanderbilt loses is (obviously) out of UK’s control. What they can focus on is beating Tennessee.

The Volunteers are 7-7 in SEC play, not including their game against South Carolina that ended after publication.

Tennessee is 2-5 in its last seven games, including a 73-61 loss at UK. And a little discord occurred when head coach Bruce Pearl said that leadership had to be internal and originate from the players.

Melvin Goins responded by saying Tennessee had leadership problems “from the top all the way down,” according to the Associated Press’ Beth Rucker.

Still, Tennessee has extra motivation. It’s their last home game, and it’s the finale of the SEC schedule for all teams.

“The game we have left is going to be a senior night, (an) impossible game,” head coach John Calipari said Tuesday.

“How do you even stay in the game? It’s going to be a hard game for these guys.”

Tennesee will retire former player Allan Houston’s jersey before the game.

Reggie Miller will be commentating his first college game as an analyst.

The complete tiebreaker rules are as follows:

SEC Tournament Tie-Breaker Procedures

1. Two-Team Tie: The following procedure will be used in the following order until the tie is broken:

A) Won-lost results of head-to-head competition between the two teams.

B) Division won-lost record of the two teams (10 games).

C) Won-lost record of the two teams versus the No. 1 seed in their division (and proceeding through the No. 6 seed, if necessary).

D) Non-division won-lost record of the two teams (six games).

E) Won-lost record of the two teams versus the No. 1 seed in the opposite division (and proceeding through the No. 6 seed, if necessary).

F) Coin flip by the Commissioner.

2. Three-Team Tie (or more): When three of more teams are tied for a division finish, the following procedure will be used in the following order until the tie is broken. If two teams remain tied after a tiebreaker provision, the two-team tiebreaker formula will be used.

A) Total won-lost record of games played among the tied teams (Example: Team A is 3-1, Team B is 2-2 and Team C is 1-3 — Team A would be seeded highest, Team B second-highest and Team C lowest of the three).

B)Division won-lost record

of the tied teams (10 games).

C)Won-lost record of the tied teams versus the No. 1 seed in their division

(and proceeding through the No. 6 seed, if necessary).

D)Non-division won-lost record of the tied teams

(six games).

E)Won-lost record of the tied teams versus the No. 1 seed in the opposite division (and

proceeding through the No. 6 seed, if necessary).

F)Draw by the Commissioner.