Cooper Flagg is one of the most exciting freshman talents in college basketball. And this past Saturday night, the future NBA lottery pick put that talent on full display for his Duke Blue Devils.

Flagg has surged to become the favorite for the award, with the race seeming like a two-candidate battle at the moment between the freshman and Auburn senior forward Johni Broome.

Cooper Flagg’s dominant month of January put him in elite company among men’s college basketball players of the last 25 years ...