Maybe the Kansas loss at Tennessee was a bit of an eye-opener for the rest of the nation, but the teams of the Southeastern Conference know better. Winning in hostile SEC environments is no easy task, one Kentucky will have to face Tuesday night after a home dominated first half of the season. UK will play just its second road game of the year at Florida at 9 p.m. Tuesday in front of a nationally televised audience on ESPN.”This is what guys came here for,” senior guard Ramon Harris said. “They see it on TV. They see all the rivalries – the Duke-North Carolina rivalry, they see the Kentucky and Louisville rivalry – and they want to play in that type of environment.”The O’Connell Center in Gainesville, Fla., sometimes referred to as the O’Dome, is expected to be sold out, raucous and rowdy for Tuesday night’s tilt. Because of the Cats’ longtime history of success and the Gators’ recent surge in the last decade, the UK-Florida game has become one of the most intense and anticipated games of the SEC slate.”I always like playing at Florida,” Harris said. “It’s a great environment. It’s something that you dream of when you play D-I basketball is playing in a hostile crowd on the road, and that’s what Florida is.”Arenas like Rupp, Thompson-Boling and Bud Walton make the SEC a haven for hostile environments, but you could make an argument for the O’Connell Center being one of the toughest places to play in America – when it’s a marquee game. In recent years, “ESPN The Magazine” has dubbed it the “Scariest Place to Play in the Country” and the “House of Horrors.”Although the O’Dome seats just 12,000, it provides an intimate, deafening environment because of its unique seating arrangement. Fans, whether they’re in second or 22nd row, feel as if they’re on top of the court. A Gator fan can almost raise their arms out and touch the players with one of their widely known Gator chomps. The student section, appropriately named the “Rowdy Reptiles,” sits so close to the court that I had multiple students breathing down my neck and commenting on every word I typed as I live blogged the game last year in Gainesville.It’s enough to drive opposing teams over the edge, especially one loaded with inexperienced first-year players, who, outside of a road trip to Bloomington, Ind., have not experienced the rigors of the road.”I’ve been down there and they tell me that it is a great environment for college basketball and they will be mean and vicious and say stuff and have signs,” head coach John Calipari said. “They are not going to do what I say to do which is just cheer for the teams. They are going to go after us and that is OK. That is part of that environment and that is fine. We are going to find out where we are. That is why you do this.”Young pups like Daniel Orton seemed to surprisingly thrive in the hostility of Assembly Hall in the December game at Indiana. “It’s going to be a lot of pressure on us to see how well we do on the road,” freshman forward Daniel Orton said. “I think we’ll play our own game and play pretty well because we have great leadership. We’ll get our minds straight and play well. We won’t pay attention to it and we’ll block everything out. We like having people against us.”Harris said the veterans will advise the freshmen to focus on every possession, but nothing can simulate the beaten path of the SEC. “I just tell them that it’s going to be loud like they see on TV,” Harris said. “It’s going to be fun, though.”As fun as eight SEC road games with a target on your back can get.Liggins’ play warrants more PT: Sophomore guard DeAndre Liggins, who was benched the first nine game of the season for undisclosed reasons, could see increased playing time against Florida because of  the noticeable spark he’s provided off the bench in recent games.While Liggins won’t join the starting five – Calipari wondered out loud to himself after the Georgia game whether Liggins has played well enough to start – he has seen enough to become one of the first players off the bench.”I think that we will need him coming off the bench,” Calipari said. “But (he) and Daniel (Orton) will be the first two subs. When you talk about seven now, he has worked his way into that seven. I will then go from there.”Liggins totaled six points and three steals in 14 minutes of action in the win against Georgia.