Senior point guard Kevin Punter won’t play Saturday night against Arkansas, Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said Friday.

Barnes said before Friday’s practice in Thompson-Boling Arena that Punter —Â the SEC’s second-leading scorer at 22.2 points per game —Â is still battling a stress fractures in his right foot and won’t be back for Saturday’s 7:30 p.m. Eastern game against the Razorbacks in Knoxville.

“He’s day-to-day, but, I mean, … he’s not gonna play tomorrow,” Barnes said. “He’s still trying to do the rehab. The kind of kid he is, he’s hoping to have a chance to come back and play. But what he’s got is a stress fracture. That’s something that’s tough to deal with, but hopefully he can get it to quiet down enough. It’ll be up to him.

“But he won’t play tomorrow.”

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Punter dealt with soreness in his foot for a few weeks before finally heading to the bench the past two games —Â an 80-70 win over LSU in Knoxville and an 84-58 loss at South Carolina on Wednesday night in Columbia.

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