Flagg becomes 4th Duke player to win ACC POY, ROY

Duke standout Cooper Flagg was awarded the ACC Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year on Monday, the league announced.

The Maine native joins fellow Blue Devils Zion Williamson, Marvin Bagley III, and Jahlil Okafor as the only players to capture both honors in the same season in conference history.

He's the 19th Blue Devils player to win ACC Player of the Year and the 15th to win Rookie of the Year.

Flagg received first-place votes from 75 of the 81 panelists voting on Player of the Year, which consists of the conference's 18 head coaches along with 63 media members.

The projected No. 1 pick in the 2025 draft reclassified to join school early. His 12 ACC Rookie of the Week nominations are a new conference record. Flagg became the youngest player in NCAA history to have a 40-point game and holds both the Duke and ACC freshman single-game scoring records with 42.

The 6-foot-9 forward finished third in the conference in points (19.4), eighth in rebounds (7.6), eighth in assists (4.2), 10th in steals (1.5), and eighth in blocks (1.3).

Flagg is KenPom's highest-rated player since the analytics site began rating in 2011. Flagg is a finalist for the John R. Wooden Award as the nation's most outstanding player and the Julius Erving Award as the nation's top small forward.

Duke won its 21st ACC regular-season title and is the No. 1 team in the final AP Poll before Selection Sunday. It'll kick off its ACC tourney in the quarterfinals Thursday.