Before Cooper Flagg came to Duke, he spent time playing for Maine United, an AAU team. During a tournament back in Flagg's junior year of high school, he got elbowed in the nose and had to exit the contest. His nose was bleeding everywhere, and people had already told him that he shouldn't play in this tournament even before the incident.

Duke Blue Devils standout freshman Cooper Flagg had a highlight-reel dunk in the team’s regular-season finale against UNCC, but it was his mother, Kelly Bowman