Tennessee basketball spent five weeks ranked No. 1 before falling in the polls in recent weeks following its first three losses.

For Kentucky, the game before The Game was a tough one on paper — a Tuesday night road contest against Rick Barnes' Tennessee Vols, who were ranked No. 1 in the country just a few weeks ago and listed as 10.

There's been a major shakeup in this week's men's college basketball top 10 power rankings as Purdue has vaulted onto the list.

Tennessee basketball lost its first game of the season at Florida, which dropped the Vols from the No. 1 spot after five weeks.

Duke had already won at Wake Forest to extend its winning streak to 13 games, and now Auburn was down four points to Tennessee in the final two minutes at home, at which point Saturday looked like it might deliver a development that would create change at the top of the Top 25 And 1.