ATLANTA — With his team rolling Alabama and well on its way to the Southeastern Conference championship game, Kentucky coach John Calipari flirted with UK’s ever-present depth issues. The Cats paid dearly when freshman guard Doron Lamb went down late in the game with a sprained left ankle. Lamb’s official status for Sunday’s championship game is doubtful.”He was pretty bad in (the locker room), but we’ll see,” Calipari said of Lamb’s status. “We’ll play without him if he can’t go.”The injury came just moments after DeAndre Liggins sprained his left ankle. Liggins is probable for Sunday.Liggins’ ankle injury came with Kentucky up 72-55, 1:16 left in the game and four starters on the floor. Liggins limped off the court and Jon Hood entered the game for the first time Saturday, but Calipari decided to keep the rest of his players in the game.Seconds later, Lamb fell to the floor. He did not limp off as easily as Liggins and had to be carried by a trainer and Josh Harrellson to the bench. Lamb did not put any weight on his ankle.”I tried to get open, he stuck his foot out and I just stepped right on it,” Lamb said. “I came down on it wrong. It hurts right now a little bit, but I’ll get treatment tonight and be ready for tomorrow’s game.”That’s right — despite having his ankle immediately wrapped, iced and elevated after the game, and even though he could hardly put any weight on it after interviews were over, Lamb says he’s playing Sunday, and he was downright adamant about it.”It hurts right now, but I’m playing tomorrow,” Lamb said. “Positive.”The ankle injuries come just a day after Terrence Jones tweaked his ankle in the Ole Miss win. Jones played in Saturday’s game.”Maybe it’s just our room,” Jones said. “I sprained mine yesterday and now he sprained his today. I don’t know what’s going on.”Lamb said he was expecting to come out of the game at the next dead ball. Afterwards, Calipari defended his decision to keep his starters in, explaining that he would have taken them out if Alabama had stopped pressing.”You don’t know my bench,” Calipari said. “I play six guys. If they had stopped pressing, I would have subbed with three minutes to go. But they didn’t stop pressing and they kept grabbing and scrapping.”Calipari pointed to past blown leads as a reason for not emptying his bench sooner.”So I sub and they make a couple of 3s, we miss it (and) my bench is saying we’re fine,” Calipari said. “It goes to 11. I sub my guys back in now, we miss foul shots and (the lead) is three, and you say, ‘You never played those guys all year. Why would you do that? Why wouldn’t you finish the game off?'”You don’t win. Obviously, I would have rather had all of them out. We play tomorrow. But I’m trying to win that game.”Calipari has played with a small rotation for much of the year — UK’s seventh man, forward Eloy Vargas, didn’t enter until the under-seven-minute mark — which was magnified even more when Lamb went down with an injury. Asked if his stomach turns a little when he sees one of his key players goes down, Calipari said no.”I walked over and said, ‘Get up, you’re fine,’ ” Calipari said.Liggins called his ankle injury just a “minor tweak,” but he admitted some fear when he crumbled to the floor.”When I first did it, I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know if I can play tomorrow,’ ” Liggins said.Lamb said he’s had ankle injuries in the past, but this was the first time that he could recall spraining an ankle.”I’ve never came down on my foot like that,” Lamb said. “It hurt when I came down.”The injuries overshadowed one of Kentucky’s best games of the year. The Cats rolled the Tide 72-58, leading by as much a 26 late in the second half and avenging their loss in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in mid-Janurary. Lamb led four Wildcats in double digits with 15 points. Harrellson added 14 points and 10 rebounds and Liggins had 14 points and nine rebounds.