The Georgia men’s basketball team will take on one of the highest- scoring teams in the nation when it travels to Knoxville to face No. 3 Tennessee this Saturday.

The Volunteers came into this week ranked fifth in Division I in scoring at 85.8 points per game.

But Tennessee might be better known for its pressure defense, which has the Vols forcing more turnovers than anyone in the country.

“With their full-court pressure, their main thing is to keep you from getting the ball in bounds and maybe trap the first time, and then get back,” Georgia point guard Sundiata Gaines said.

“They’re going to be swiping and trying to take your ball. Sometimes teams get rattled, and they feed off that. But it’s easy once you get (the ball) in. You can dissect it real good.”

Once the ball is in bounds, though, the Bulldogs will have to deal with a team athletic enough to play at a fast pace for the full 40 minutes.

“They’re outstanding at ramping up their aggression and making it tough for you to slow the game down,” Georgia associate head coach Pete Herrmann said in a Monday conference call.

“They’re very active and athletic, and they want it up-tempo, and they get after you at all positions. They’re athletic enough and deep enough to constantly put pressure on.”

Georgia (11-5, 2-1 SEC) does come in on a hot streak, having won back-to-back conference games over Alabama and Arkansas last week.

The Vols (16-2, 3-1), meanwhile, know they won’t be ranked so high when the polls come out next week, after falling at Kentucky Tuesday night.

“(The Kentucky game) will create more focus, a sense of urgency in Tennessee,” Georgia head coach Dennis Felton said.

“There’s no doubt about that.”

Felton also said he is leaning toward a medical redshirt for freshman forward Jeremy Jacob.

Jacob has missed the last 10 games with stress fractures in his right foot. He played in the Bulldogs’ first six contests, averaging 5.2 points per game.