The men’s basketball team is busy preparing for Saturday’s much-anticipated showdown with North Carolina. Now it’s time for you, the fans, to get your game ready as well.

UK will hold an open “cheer practice” Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in Rupp Arena to prepare the fans for Saturday’s game. The practice will serve as a test run for what UK hopes and expects from its fans when the ball is thrown up Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

The Student Athletic Council will host the event in hopes of getting all the fans on the same page. SAC will videotape the eRUPPtion Zone doing specific new cheers, action and chants. The video will be made available to all students and serve as a learning tool for students who sit in the eRUPPtion Zone for this and future games.

Fans with eRUPPtion Zone tickets will be seated first, but the they will fill in extra fans as necessary for practice.

Fans should enter through the security entrance located near the loading docks. Parking will be available for free in the Cox Street parking lot.