Of course I would've! College basketball is forever better in true home-road environments, especially in historic, on-campus buildings. So, like I tweeted late Tuesday, if you put me at a table in between Kansas coach Bill Self and Duke coach Jon Scheyer,

Does anyone have love for the Kansas Jayhawks? The country’s No. 1 men’s college basketball squad is a 2.5-point underdog on a neutral court to No. 11 Duke on Tuesday night. Both teams should be at full strength as we head into the marquee affair in Las Vegas.

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.

On Tuesday night, Cooper Flagg got his points, but the Jayhawks revealed the blueprint for how to slow him down.

Flagg has been tested during the first weeks of his college career, and the 17-year-old phenom still looks like the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA draft.