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.

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.