Per Duke Comms:
Duke men’s basketball freshman Cooper Flagg has been named the winner of the 2024-25 Oscar Robertson Trophy as the National Player of the Year and the 2024-25 Wayman Tisdale Award recipient as the National Freshman Player of the Year, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) announced on Tuesday, March 25. Flagg is just the fourth player to sweep both awards, joining Zion Williamson (2019), Anthony Davis (2012) and Kevin Durant (2007).
A native of Newport, Maine, Flagg becomes the ninth Blue Devil to be named National Player of the Year by the USBWA and sixth to win the Oscar Robertson Trophy, which was established in 1998.