ATLANTA -- Kentucky looks very much like a young team peaking at just the right time.

Except for one little issue.

Do the Wildcats have enough players heading into the Southeastern Conference title game and the tournament that really matters?

Brandon Knight finally got rolling in Atlanta, scoring 10 straight points to blow it open, and Kentucky (No. 16 ESPN/USA Today, No. 15 AP) romped to a 72-58 semifinal victory over Alabama on Saturday.

"We'd have smacked anybody the way we played," coach John Calipari said.

But the closing minutes, with Kentucky way out in front, must have been disconcerting to the Bluegrass faithful. Calipari only has six players in his rotation -- including three freshmen -- and as the clock ticked down, the Wildcats still had four starters and main backup DeAndre Liggins on the court.

"I even had an assistant saying, 'Do you want to get these guys out?'" Calipari said.

Maybe he should've listened.

First, Liggins tumbled to the court hard and limped to the locker room. Then, Doron Lamb went down going for a rebound, spraining his left ankle. He rolled around in obvious pain and couldn't put any pressure on it as he was helped to the bench by teammate Josh Harrellson and a member of the basketball staff.

Liggins called his injury just a "minor tweak" to the ankle. Lamb's appeared more serious, with Calipari saying he could be doubtful for Sunday's SEC title game against regular-season champion Florida, a 77-66 victor over Vanderbilt

"We'll see how bad he wants to play," Calipari said. "We'll play without him if we have to."

The coach said he kept his starters in the game because Alabama was pressing on every possession, fighting to the very end to cut into its big deficit.

"You don't know my bench," said Calipari, whose team has won seven of eight, the last five in a row. "If they had stopped pressing, I would have started subbing at three minutes [to go]."

That said, he's decided that this is the way it must be: Kentucky will only go with six players right on into the NCAA tournament, assuming he can keep them all healthy.