It's been a while since Duke University's incoming basketball forward Cooper Flagg, ranked No. 1 overall in the 247Sports 2024 Composite Rankings, lost a basketball game. Last season as Mr. Basketball USA, he posted a 33-0 record at Montverde Academy (Fla.) and won the 2024 Chipotle High School Nationals title.
And, as future head coach Jon Scheyer suggested during an appearance on the ACC Network this week, it's no coincidence that clearly the best prep team in the entire country had the 6-foot-9, 200-pound Flagg on their roster. do not have. :
“I was very happy to see him play in high school,” he said, heading into his third season at the helm in Durham after going 27-9 in his first two years as coach. Scheyer has just built a solid roster, the coach told the ACC PM Crew. “No matter when you see him, whether it's 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning after he's played a few days or watching him play on ESPN in this year's national championship game, he always makes the same play. ing.
“He always competes with 100 percent effort, and I think that's the dividing line. Obviously, if you look at his athleticism, his talent, his size, his skills, it's substandard. But for me , it's how he competes and who he is as a player and teammate. β
Cooper Flagg will join one-and-done RJ Barrett for the 2018-19 season as the only Duke basketball players to arrive in Durham with a 1.0000 overall rating on 247Sports.
The potential No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft joins four combined five-star players in Carman Maluach, Con Knuppel, Patrick Gomba II and Isaiah Evans. He is part of a six-tier Duke basketball recruiting class that features star players. Sniper Darren Harris.
They will line up with two scholarship Blue Devils returners in Tyrese Proctor and Caleb Foster and four inbound transfers in Malik Brown, Mason Gillis, Zion James and Cameron Sheffield. .
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