On that play, Flagg drove to the basket on big man Hunter Dickinson. Adams arrived to help and swatted Flagg’s shot. He tried to recover the ball but knocked it out of bounds. On the next Duke possession, Adams stopped a three-on-one fast break by swatting Kon Knueppel’s shot at the rim.

Cooper Flagg may be the top player in the country, but Kansas is the top-ranked team. And the Jayhawks proved why Tuesday. No. 1 Kansas defeated Flagg and

Flagg has been tested during the first weeks of his college career, and the 17-year-old phenom still looks like the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA draft.

Kansas men’s basketball will enter Tuesday’s Vegas Showdown against Duke with a healthy dose of respect for freshman sensation Cooper Flagg, a 2024-25 AP preseason All-American regarded as a strong favorite to be the No.

Duke basketball sensation Cooper Flagg earned some big-game redemption when he scored 24 points in a road win against Arizona last Friday, but he still had plenty to prove entering Tuesday’s collision with No.

Potential NBA first-overall pick Cooper Flagg finished the loss with 13 points, five rebounds, three assists and one steal while shooting 5/9 from the field and 1/1 from the three-point range. Many people reacted to his performance.