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Rick Barnes asking Paolo Banchero about his girlfriend is weird, right?

Paolo Banchero is a top five prospect in the 2021 class who’s mulling a move to 2020, so of course he’s receiving a ton of attention from college coaches across the country; in fact, one coach went so far as to pry into Banchero’s dating life.

In a blog post for USA Today High School Sports, Banchero described a conversation with Rick Barnes in which the Tennessee head coach asked about his girlfriend.

We just talked about everyday stuff, and then he asked me if I had a girlfriend. I told him yes, and then he said is she cute.