Regardless of ranking, Duke basketball has a treasure on the way in Cooper Flagg.
Duke basketball recruiting prize Cooper Flagg sits atop the 247Sports 2024 Composite. He boasts a perfect 1.0000 composite rating, meaning all of the leading recruiting sites place him at No. 1 in the class.
If that stands, the 6-foot-9, 200-pound five-star forward would join fellow Montverde Academy (Fla.) product RJ Barrett as the only Blue Devils to arrive in Durham with the highest possible rating across the roughly 20 years of composite scores that 247Sports has on record.
But Flagg’s top-dog status might not stand, according to 247Sports director of basketball scouting Adam Finkelstein.
On Monday, Finkelstein explained how McEachern (Ga.) forward Ace Bailey, one of the two Rutgers signees among the top three prospects in the cycle, is “making his case” to overtake the future Blue Devil. He teased his article on social media by asking, “Could the new year bring a new number one in the class of 2024?”
After noting Bailey’s 40 points and 21 rebounds in a recent outing and his marked improvement across the past several months, Finkelstein summarized where he thinks the 6-foot-8, 195-pound five-star should rank among his peers:
“To put it plainly, he’s now proven he’s one of the two best prospects in the country — and a legitimate contender for the No. 1 spot.”
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