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.

It came down to the wire, but experience showed in the closing minutes of Duke basketball's loss to Kansas in Las Vegas.