The ESPN College GameDay crew, which will be broadcasting live from Rupp Arena Saturday morning and Saturday night for the UK-Tennessee basketball game, pulled into town Friday morning to begin preparing for the weekly show.

Rece Davis, Jay Bilas, Digger Phelps and Hubert Davis are all expected at Rupp Arena for college basketball’s premier preview show.

UK has already sold out its entire allotment of tickets for the show in hopes of setting a new GameDay attendance record. The show will be broadcast live on ESPN at 11 a.m.

I’m actually headed over to an ESPN production meeting at 2 p.m. to get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into the show. I have no clue what to expect or what I’ll be able to do from it, but hopefully I’ll be able to get a blog post or two out of it for later on.

Unfortunately I’ll likely miss today’s media availability with head coach John Calipari and the players because of the meeting, but I’ll have somebody cover for me so we can get some posts on the big game up on the Web later this evening.