April 2, 2025

DUKE’S COOPER FLAGG RECIPIENT OF 2025 KYLE MACY AWARD
The top freshman in division I college basketball

SAN ANTONIO, TX -- Duke’s Cooper Flagg is the recipient of the 2025 Kyle Macy award, which is presented annually to the top freshman in division I college basketball.

The 6-foot-9 native of Newport, Maine leads No. 1 Duke in points (682), rebounds (271), assists (151) and steals (50), and is second in blocks (47). He ranks among the Top 10 in the ACC in four of the five major statistical categories - scoring (3rd), rebounding (9th), assists (8th) and blocked shots (8th).

He garnered both ACC player and rookie of the week honors in the same week five times this season, becoming the first player in ACC history to sweep the conference weekly awards more than twice. His 12 ACC Rookie of the Week citations are a new conference record.

“No player in college basketball impacts the game in more ways than Cooper Flagg,” said Angela Lento, Vice President of CollegeInsider.com. “He does whatever the team needs to win. Duke has produced many of the best freshmen the game has ever seen. None were better in their first season than Cooper Flagg.”

Flagg became the youngest player in NCAA history to post a 40-point game when he broke the Duke and ACC freshman single-game scoring records with 42 points versus Notre Dame on Jan. 11, and registered the first NCAA Tournament performance with at least 30 points, seven assists, six rebounds and three blocks in Duke's Sweet 16 victory over Arizona on March 27.
The Newport, Maine native becomes the sixth Duke player to win the Kyle Macy award.

The award is named for a guard who starred as a freshman for Purdue. The 1975 Indiana Mr. Basketball, Kyle Macy played his freshman season at Purdue University, averaging 13.8 points per game while leading the Boilermakers in free throws (85.9 percent for the season). He started in 25 of 27 games, helping them to a 16-11 season record.

After one season in West Lafayette, Indiana, Macy transferred to the University of Kentucky in 1976. He started every game for the Wildcats in 1977. A three-time All-America and three-time All-SEC player, Macy was a member of Kentucky's 1978 National Championship team. In his senior year of 1979-80, he became the first Kentucky player ever to be named consensus Southeastern Conference Player of the Year.

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