Cooper Flagg may be the top player in the country, but Kansas is the top-ranked team. And the Jayhawks proved why Tuesday. No. 1 Kansas defeated Flagg and

On that play, Flagg drove to the basket on big man Hunter Dickinson. Adams arrived to help and swatted Flagg’s shot. He tried to recover the ball but knocked it out of bounds. On the next Duke possession, Adams stopped a three-on-one fast break by swatting Kon Knueppel’s shot at the rim.

For once, Cooper Flagg looked 17 years old. Duke’s freshman forward, whose polished game has made him the odds-on favorite to be the first pick in June’s NBA draft, found himself cornered by two Kansas defenders.