As he continues to play for a national championship, Cooper Flagg added another honor to his curriculum vitae.
The Duke superstar was appointed recipient of this year from the Wooden Award, awarded to the best academic basketball player in the country.
Flagg only becomes the fourth recruit in history to win the award, joining Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis and Zion Williamson.
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Duke Blue Devils Cooper Flagg’s striker reacts in the second half to the Dean E. Smith Center. (Bob Donnan / Imagn images)
Flagg received the head of Johni Broome, Walter Clayton Jr., Mark Sears and Braden Smith.
This season, Flagg is on average 18.9 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.2 assists. Despite the return of an ankle injury suffered in the ACC tournament, he deposits 19.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists in the NCAA tournament.
Flagg helped transport Duke in the Final Four, and the Blue Devils are the favorite to win everything.
Duke Blue Devils Cooper Flagg’s striker reacts in the second half to the Dean E. Smith Center. (Bob Donnan / Imagn images)
The former NBA star who went first as a whole says that Cooper Flagg should return to Duke
It will not be an easy task because the Final Four offers four standard heads n ° 1 for the second time in the history of the tournament.
The Blue Devils will face Houston at 8:49 p.m. on Saturday after Florida and Auburn meet in San Antonio.
Flagg is the favorite to be the first global choice this summer if he enters the NBA recovery. Flagg said he wanted to stay in Duke.
Duke Blue Devils striker, Cooper Flagg, heads for the bench during the second half against the deacons of Wake Forest demon in Cameron Indoor Stadium. (Rob Kinnan / Imagn images)
“S —, I want to come back next year,” said the first year in February. “I always feel like a child. This is the only way I have ever known the university. This is how I see it. I really couldn’t know what children were feeling before, and if it feels different, if it looks more like a professional. I mean, it is the same thing for children in high school, too, I am paid a lot of money. I don’t know.”
