Cooper Flagg was extraordinarily sweaty throughout Saturday’s school basketball recreation between Duke and Clemson. He often is.
It performed an element within the final result on Saturday night time, because it did earlier within the 12 months.
The presumptive No. 1 general decide slipped and fell throughout a vital second of the Blue Devils’ upset loss. Flagg turned the ball over to the Tigers with a two-point lead on a journey. There have been solely 14.7 seconds left within the recreation. Duke by no means recovered.
cooper flagg slip pic.twitter.com/W3S3O3uGyI
— ◇ (@H00DH3R0) February 9, 2025
Safety guards had been in place to attempt to forestall a court docket storm however they rendered completely ineffective in opposition to Clemson college students. Absolute scenes proceeded to unfold in South Carolina.
#Clemson upsets No. 2 Duke in what’s going to go down as probably the most vital win in Littlejohn in latest reminiscence.
Right here’s the scene on the house ground: @ClemsonTigerNet pic.twitter.com/9OFrJQtCc2
— Grayson Mann (@gray_mann21) February 9, 2025
Right here is the way it seemed on the printed:
CLEMSON TAKES DOWN NO. 2 DUKE ???? pic.twitter.com/y5eDllPfud
— ESPN (@espn) February 9, 2025
We clearly can not affirm that it was in reality Cooper Flagg who sweat in that actual spot the place his foot slipped out from beneath him. Nonetheless, we can also’t not.
He simply slipped. It was a moist spot.
— Duke head coach Jon Scheyer
The possible Nationwide Participant of the 12 months (if not Johni Broome?) is a remarkably sweaty dude as quickly because the ball is tipped, if not earlier than.
That is Cooper Flagg. He’s among the finest gamers in America and is nearly unstoppable. The draw back, he sweats uncontrollably resulting in late recreation turnovers pic.twitter.com/Jr5rgG24QU
— Max Hofmeyer (@hoffy8121) February 9, 2025
Second-ranked Duke took its third lack of the 12 months to Clemson and all three losses concerned some form of slip or slip-like scenario. Scheyer stated after the sport on Saturday that he preferred the search for Cooper Flagg. The Blue Devils acquired him an iso. He simply slipped.
The Tigers ended the nation’s longest profitable streak at 16 video games on the identical day that Auburn misplaced to Florida. Each No. 1 and No. 2 went down in a span of some hours. Faculty basketball is unpredictable this 12 months. Even the seemingly unbeatable are, as we noticed, beatable.
As long as every thing goes on with out incident, court docket storming is nice for the game. There have been fairly a number of through the 2024/2025 season. The most recent got here to an finish with Cooper Flagg and his (second?) sweaty slip.
