Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer is in awe of the freshman Cooper Flagg. Scheyer's sending what might be a warning to the rest of America.
The night before Jon Scheyer and his third Duke basketball team tallied their 12th straight victory via Saturday's 88-63 road blowout over the Boston College Eagles, the Blue Devils appeared at TD Garden to show support for a handful of the program's former players in the Boston Celtics' 121-94 home win over the Orlando Magic.
Boston Celtics forward and Duke alumnus Jayson Tatum opened up about his close relationship with Blue Devils coach Jon Scheyer, saying their bond dates back to when he was a young player in Milwaukee.
The Duke Blue Devils extended the nation’s longest winning streak to 12 games, surviving Boston College’s early hot shooting and physical play to beat the Eagles behind Cooper Flagg’s 28 points.
The outlier was last weekend’s 86-78 home win against Notre Dame, which featured Flagg scoring an ACC freshman record 42 points. Duke scored the game’s first 14 points and led by 18 in the final four minutes, but frittered away nearly all of that lead as the Fighting Irish got within four late.
By the end of the game, the Blue Devils were coasting to their 12th-straight victory, but the road to get there was by no means without its bumps. The absence of Maliq Brown was acutely felt in the frontcourt — Cooper Flagg,
The No. 3 Blue Devils and freshman phenom Cooper Flagg of Newport, Maine, took the court against the Eagles as a consensus 23.5-point favorite with an over/under betting line of 138.5.
Cooper Flagg and Duke basketball are back on the road at Boston College. Will the Blue Devils continue their dominant run in the ACC? Here's our pick.
No. 3 Duke is intent on keeping its aggression and focus even as some lopsided results have piled up during Atlantic Coast Conference play. The Blue Devils meet another struggling
Ahead of a showdown against the Boston College Eagles (9-8, 1-5 ACC) at 8 p.m. ET Saturday (ESPN), Jon Scheyer and his No. 3-ranked Blue Devils (15-2, 7-0 ACC) were in TD Garden on Friday night to ...
As he made shots rain down in Conte Forum, No. 3 Duke men’s basketball stormed to a 88-63 conference victory on the road against Boston College.
Duke basketball has a freshman star in Cooper Flagg, who is one of the most talented players in college basketball. Duke’s coach Jon Scheyer is sending a message to the rest of the country about his young star.