Comparing Wooden Award frontrunners Cooper Flagg and Johni Broome

Comparing Wooden Award frontrunners Cooper Flagg and Johni Broome


Comparing Wooden Award frontrunners Cooper Flagg and Johni Broome

Duke’s Cooper Flagg and Auburn’s Johnni Broome made two horses a race of two horses, each led by two of the top titles in the country. But while both sit on the top of the men’s school of the basketball world, their ways to this point could not be more different.

Broome completed high school as 471. Player in class 2020 and 79. Rating of the center, according to 247 Sports. He had several university offers, including Bryant and Jacksonville, before he signed with the MOREHEAD STATE in the middle of his senior high school.

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Flagg received his first Di offer from Bryant in the eighth grade and, as most knows, he finished high school as a unanimous recruitment No. 1 at all places in the selection of school litters and finally signed with Jon Scheyer and Blue Devils in October 2023.

When Broome Sophomore was in high school, he rode on the bench for his Varsity team and fought for several minutes. When Flagg Sophomore was the youngest ever won Award Basketball Male Athlete of the Year US.

It was not expected that Broome would start in his first year in the state of MOREHEAD, but the seasonal injury of the Tyzhaun Claude Center came across a ladder. He immediately turned out, average 13.8 points, nine rebounds and two blocks for eagles. In the years 2020-21 he continued to win the first Ohio Valley Conference of the Year conference.

Before Flagg even dressed the Duke of Jersey, he trained with the Olympic team for basketball male basketball and held his own against Anthony Davis, Devin Booker and Bam Adebayo as a 17 -year -old. He was the first college to be elected as part of a selected team of male men in the US for more than ten years.

Broome blossomed with MOREHEAD STATE and made another jump of his Sophomore season, where he average 16.8 points, 10.5 rebounds and ridiculous 3.9 blocks per game. His talent was undeniable, and the best coaches di noticed. After completing high school outside the TOP 400, Broome entered the portal as 13. Total transfer and the second center for 247 sports.

Now, two years later, Broome had his own selection of schools and Bruce Pearl needed a replacement for the big men of Walker Kessler and Jabari Smith. It was perfect fit and Broome did not lose step, on average 14.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and 2.4 blocks as a junior with tigers in 2023-24.

Today, everyone is trying to do history in their own way-Broome, being the first fifth year to take home Wooden Award, and Flagg, only the fourth newcomer. One never expected to get to this point, and the other is trying to meet noble expectations, but both compete for the leadership of their programs to the National Championship.

On April 11 he will make a prize home while applauding the other, but by then a lot of basketball is played. For now, we are waiting to see if one of them can take home the biggest trophy of all, as the madness develops.

Comparison

*All statistics are until March 5, 2025

John Broome STATE Cooper Flagg
18.0 Points/Game 19.6
10.7 Rebounds/game 7.5
3.3 Assistance/game 4.2
0.8 Steals/play 1.6
2.4 Blocks/Game 1.2
50.4% Fg% 49.7%




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