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.

Two of the top SEC teams face off as we continue our College Basketball odds series with an Alabama-Kentucky prediction and pick.

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.

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

The midway point of college basketball's regular season has passed, and some of the sport's top squads are establishing themselves in an elevated tier of dominance. In particular, the top squads in the ACC and Big 12 are simply dismantling the opposition in head-turning fashion.