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.

Kansas basketball head coach Bill Self had high praise for Duke’s freshman phenom Cooper Flagg ahead of Tuesday’s clash between the No. 1 Jayhawks and No. 11 Blue Devils in Las Vegas. Speaking about Flagg’s impact and skill set on Monday,