The Duke men’s basketball team celebrated an impressive Cooper Flagg accomplishment on Wednesday, just days before the 2025 NBA draft, where he’s expected to go No. 1 overall to the Dallas Mavericks.

Cooper Flagg once seemed to float the idea of returning to Duke for a sophomore season instead of declaring for the NBA draft as soon as he was eligible. But the ideal scenario for him to return to Duke wasn't possible,

Cooper Flagg was the most talked-about player in all of college basketbal l last season. He lived up to the hype by leading Duke in every major statistical category.