Doron Lamb is doubtful and DeAndre Liggins is fine for Sunday’s SEC Tournament Championship game, according to UK spokesman DeWayne Peevy.

Both suffered ankle injuries within the last few minutes of a 72-58 UK win over Alabama.

Lamb suffered an ankle sprain with under a minute left in the game when he came down on an opponent’s foot. He was carried off the floor, and in the postgame locker room had an ice bag wrapped around it. By the end of interviews, Lamb was able to limp around on his own, putting slight pressure on the foot, and later used crutches.

The official word is that he’s doubtful, but Lamb was adamant he would play.

“It hurts right now, but I’m playing tomorrow,” Lamb said. “Positive.”

Lamb said he was about to come out on the next break in the action. Terrence Jones also said the starters were set to check out at the next break, but head coach John Calipari wanted to get Lamb used to dribbling against pressure.

In the postgame press conference, Calipari said he would have subbed his starters out if Alabama hadn’t kept pressing. He said an assistant asked him about the situation, and that UK has talked before about situations like that, but he didn’t want to put his backups in and have their lead cut.

“They didn’t stop pressing,” Calipari said. “You don’t know my bench. I play six guys. If they had stopped pressing, I would have subbed with three minutes to go. They didn’t stop pressing, and they kept grabbing and trapping. The minute he backed up, I would have subbed. But if you don’t stop.

“Alright, so I sub, and they make a couple of threes, we miss it, my bench is saying we’re fine and it goes to 11 and I sub my guys back in and we miss foul shots and it’s three, you say, ‘You never played those guys all year. Why would you do that? Why would you finish the game off and don’t win it? Obviously, I’d rather have had all of them out, we play tomorrow. But I’m trying to win that game. Good question, though.”

Lamb’s injury, coupled with DeAndre Liggins going down with an ankle injury moments before (he walked off on his own power and is fine), led to fans clamoring for Calipari to put his substitutes in. All the players were asked if they had the same thoughts. Terrence Jones, Lamb and Liggins said it was the coach’s decision. Josh Harrellson said he wondered a little bit about it.

“You always do a little bit as players, like why aren’t you putting other guys in,” Harrellson said. “But they had beat us once, we wanted to beat them back.

“I don’t know what Coach thinks about it. I don’t even know if he notices at that time, he’s so into the game. I don’t think he notices that the guys aren’t in. But he subbed out with 45 seconds in the game, but could have been a little earlier. We’re not complaining.”

Terrence Jones, who is a roommate with Lamb and suffered an ankle injury of his own in Friday’s game, said he talked to Lamb on the bench after the injury.

“He was at the end of the bench, and I asked him if he was alright, he said no,” Jones said.

Calipari also said this on pain threshold:

“Could be doubtful. I don’t know. He was pretty bad in there, but we’ll see. See how bad he wants to play. And I don’t know. One thing I’ve learned with some of these young kids, they have the pain threshold of a fourth grader. So you thought he was shot in the second half. He comes out and he’s bouncing around. It’s kind of like Terrence yesterday, he was hurting and limping while that kid was scoring on him, but when he had that dunk, he jumped real high. But we’ll see. If he doesn’t play, we’ll play without him, if he can’t go.”