On Thursday, Mark Stoops spoke with the media for the final time before Kentucky’s trip to LSU.Following a light practice, Stoops sounded like a coach confident his team is prepared to turn in its best effort on Saturday.”Good practice today, putting the finishing touches on a pretty good week of work so far,” Stoops said. “Guys are excited. We’ll have a run-through tomorrow, but so far so good. Been a good week. Guys have worked hard. Energy’s high. So we expect to go down there and play well.”No matter how ready the Wildcats may be, beating the Tigers won’t be easy. LSU is a young group, but Les Miles’ team is talented. “We’ll be prepared,” Stoops said. “It’s still a challenge. It’s obviously a very big challenge. They’re not only physical, they’re skilled and they know what they’re doing. They put pressure on you.”The 100,000-plus in Tiger Stadium at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday will do the same. UK is two days away from facing its second road test of the season and handled the first at Florida well. Nonetheless, Stoops knows the Cats will need to respond when things go awry in Death Valley.”(Noise) really didn’t affect us much the last time we were at that type of environment,” Stoops said. “Let’s hope it’s the same. I think it’s certainly not uncommon to see some problems when you’re in a hostile environment, so if we get a few, we’ve just got to be able to overcome them.”