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.

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.

Cooper Flagg has been ticketed by many to be the next big thing in the world of basketball, as the Duke Blue Devils forward can do it all — defend at a high level, handle the rock with confidence, and tip the scales in his team’s favor by being a walking mismatch problem.

Cooper Flagg and the No. 11 Duke Blue Devils suffered their second loss of the 2024-25 college basketball season as they fell to the No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks 75-72 in the Terry's Chocolate Vegas Showdown on Tuesday night.

It came down to the wire, but experience showed in the closing minutes of Duke basketball's loss to Kansas in Las Vegas.

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. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft.

Arguably the biggest game of the young 2024 NCAA basketball season will be taking place on Tuesday, Nov. 26. The number one ranked Kansas Jayhawks will be taking on the biggest name in college basketball: Cooper Flagg and his Duke Blue Devils.