Western Kentucky will step Tuesday into what coach Rick Stansbury calls “a hornets’ nest” in Seattle.

But before the Hilltoppers take on 25th-ranked Washington, they’ll get a final exhibition tuneup in front of their home fans.

WKU hosts Division II program Kentucky Wesleyan at 2 p.m. Saturday in E.A. Diddle Arena. It’s the second of two exhibitions for the Toppers, who dispatched NAIA program Campbellsville 91-66 on Tuesday.

Guard/forward Jared Savage said he wants to see WKU “clean stuff up” Saturday against the Panthers.

“We were real messy in the first half,” the redshirt junior Savage said Tuesday after beating the Tigers. “People didn’t know the sets.

“Stuff like that, we need to get sharp because Washington is a good team. We’ve got to go in there with our best game.”

The Hilltoppers didn’t have their full roster available against Campbellsville. Guard Taveion Hollingsworth missed that game, serving a one-game suspension for a violation of team rules.

Guard Jake Ohmer started in Hollingsworth’s place Tuesday, scoring eight points over 29 minutes.

Not having Hollingsworth “affected the flow” of WKU’s win, Stansbury said, but offered the team a lesson in adjusting when a key player isn’t available.

“We have a pretty good player who didn’t play tonight,” Stansbury said. “But again, that happens sometimes. A guy gets injured. So it was an opportunity for Jake to step up tonight. That’s what it’s about. He did a good job.”

While Hollingsworth is set to return Saturday, guard Josh Anderson’s status for the matchup with KWC is unclear.

The sophomore Anderson was arrested early Thursday for second-degree disorderly conduct. He was booked into the Warren County Regional Jail at 12:52 a.m. Thursday and released later in the day at 11:46.

“We are aware of the situation and handling it internally at this time,” team spokesman Zach Greenwell told the Daily News on Thursday. No public discipline, such as a game suspension, was announced Friday.

Anderson has assumed WKU’s starting point guard duties this season. He finished Tuesday’s exhibition with 22 points, six steals, five assists and two rebounds.

Anderson’s arrest and Hollingsworth’s single-game suspension came days before the Tops start the regular season Tuesday.

WKU’s 9:30 p.m. CST matchup with No. 25 Washington marks the Hilltoppers’ first time opening against a ranked team since the 2013-14 team debuted at No. 16 Wichita State.

The Huskies grabbed Stansbury’s attention last month with a 91-73 win in a closed scrimmage at No. 7 Nevada. Washington played that day without Noah Dickerson (15.5 points per game in 2017-18), who returned Thursday for his team’s scrimmage against Seattle Pacific.

Stansbury wants to see WKU put together a solid, 40-minute effort Saturday before taking a shot at the Huskies on Tuesday.

“Let’s get better come Saturday because there’s no question we go into a hornets’ nest soon,” Stansbury said. “Washington is one of the better teams out there. You guys know what they did already, going to Nevada, who I’ve seen is ranked as high as fifth in the country, and won by 18 without their best player. So that’s enough said on how good they’re going to be.

“I’m not worried about them yet. I’m worried about us continuing to grow, us continuing to get better. These game situations, this game experience, there’s no substitute for that right there.”