Duke’s Cooper Flagg has been widely regarded as the best men’s college basketball player for most of the 2024-25 season. On Saturday, just hours before his team tips off in its Final Four game, that opinion received some validation.
Flagg won the 2024-25 Wooden Award as the most outstanding men’s basketball player in the country, becoming the seventh different Duke player to win the award since it has been given out starting in 1976.