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Watch: Rick Barnes explains letting Santiago Vescovi take over the whiteboard during Saturday’s win over Alabama

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If you were watching closely on Saturday night in Tuscaloosa, you saw a little bit of a strange scene in the Tennessee huddle. Senior guard Santiago Vescovi took over the grease board, and was seemingly drawing up a play with the team listening. Head coach Rick Barnes was sitting beside him, watching it all happen.

Barnes went in depth on the moment during ‘Vol Calls’ on Tuesday night.

Coach Barnes was asked on about Santiago Vescovi’s leadership in the huddle on Saturday night.

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“What I love about that, Santi, I looked at him, I said, ‘what are you thinking?