While he continues playing for a national championship, Cooper Flagg has added another honor to his curriculum.
Duke’s superstar was appointed this year’s winner of the wooden award, awarded to the best university basketball player in the country.
Flagg becomes the fourth first year student in history to win the award, joining Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis and Zion Williamson.
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Duke Blue Devils striker, Cooper Flagg, reacts in the second half in Dean E. Smith Center. (Images Bob Donnan/Imagn)
Flagg received the wink about Johni Broome, Walter Clayton Jr., Mark Sears and Braden Smith.
This season, Flagg averages 18.9 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.2 assists. Despite returning from an ankle injury suffered in the ACC Tournament, it is presenting 19.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists in the NCAA tournament.
Flagg has helped bring Duke to the Final Four, and the Blue Devils are the favorites to win everything.
Duke Blue Devils striker, Cooper Flagg, reacts in the second half in Dean E. Smith Center. (Images Bob Donnan/Imagn)
The former NBA star that was generally in general says that Cooper Flagg should return to Duke
It will not be an easy task because the Final Four presents four seeds No. 1 for the second time in the history of the tournament.
The Blue Devils will face Houston at 8:49 pm et on Saturday after Florida and Auburn are in San Antonio.
FlagG is the favorite to be the first general selection this summer if you enter the NBA draft. Flagg has said he wants to stay in Duke.
Duke Blue Devils striker, Cooper Flagg, addresses the bank during the demonic deacons of Wake Forest in the Cameron Indoor Stadium. (Rob Kinnan/Imagn images)
“S —, I want to go back next year,” said the first year student in February. “I still feel like a child. This is the only way I have met the University. This is how I see it. I would not know how children felt before, and if this feels different, if this feels more like a professional. I mean, it is the same for children in high school, they also pay me a lot of money. I don’t know. I feel quite normal.”
