Kentucky cruised to its seventh consecutive SEC victory on Saturday with an 85-69 win over South Carolina. However the win came with a price, as freshman starting point guard De'Aaron Fox went down with an ankle injury in the first half. He returned to the bench in the second half sporting a walking boot and did not play.

If coach John Calipari knew anything about the injury, he didn't show any real concern about it, downplaying the severity of it after the game.

"It's not swelled," Calipari said. "I think it might've been a stinger. I don't know. But something hit his ankle, so he's in a boot. But they said there's no swelling, so I don't know."

Fox is listed as day-to-day, and with the Wildcats' next game on Tuesday evening, it's unclear if he will be playing. There's a chance that they will be down one guard depending on how Fox recovers in such a short period.

As a contingency plan should they be without the team leader in assists, Kentucky is in a rather unique situation. Calipari recently signed five-star guard Hamidou Diallo, who is already on campus practicing with the team and enrolled at school. And while most schools would jump at the chance to get a player of Diallo's caliber involved as soon as possible, Calipari said he plans to use his son -- a walk-on -- as an option before calling on Diallo.

"You know what I'm going to hear as soon as I get home?" Calipari asked the media on Saturday. "'Why aren't you putting in Brad [Calipari]? If you need another guard, he's there.' So, I've got to deal with that when I go home. Just one more thing to deal with."

One reporter, who asked about his son being the next option, wondered out loud what many would think: At what point do you bring Diallo in, and why would you resist that?

"Because I would want to play Brad [Calipari], mainly," Calipari said. "And I would tell you that if I have to play Brad, we're going to play some more zone. All you guys out there, you basketball bennies, saying 'he never plays zone.' I played some zone today, how did it look? Three, three, basket. OK. Now you know why I don't play zone. No, we're not, that's not even in the cards [playing Diallo].

"He's [Diallo] working hard. He's been here three, four days, and we have a kid on campus who knows him and he says, man, look at him. He's getting better. He came here for a reason. He wants to be his best version. How good can I get? How good can I be? What I want him to do is, I want him to go after Malik and Isaiah. He's a really good on-ball defender, like really good. Like go after these guys. Make them better. If they're not practicing hard, make them look bad. But yeah, he's not in the mix."

To be fair to both sides: Diallo is a shooting guard. Even if Kentucky finds themselves a guard short should Fox be out, it doesn't exactly make sense adding another shooting guard when point guard may be the concern. The Wildcats have senior Dominique Hawkins who can run the offense, as can sophomore Isaiah Briscoe.

But the point remains: Kentucky is stashing a five-star guard on its bench, and there's a chance that a walk-on averaging 3.2 minutes per game will all of a sudden be thrust into a larger role should Fox be out for an extended period. File that under things you only see at Kentucky.