The date is Tuesday, November 12, 2024. College basketball season is just eight days old, and you’re watching perhaps the biggest matchup of the season to date. The Kentucky Wildcats are playing the Duke Blue Devils on ESPN, and it’s a tight game coming down the stretch. In fact, the game is tied at 72 with just 20 seconds left, and Duke is about to do something for the first time this season: Put the ball in true freshman Cooper Flagg’s hands and let him go win a ball game for them. However, this was no storybook ending for Flagg and the Dukies, as Cooper committed turnovers on back-to-back possessions in a five-point loss.

In that first marquee game against the Wildcats, Flagg had just two assists and three turnovers. In Duke’s first game against Arizona in Tucson, Cooper had three assi

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