Cooper Flagg's Mom Says She'll Get a Tattoo If Duke Wins 2025 NCAA MCBB Title

Cooper Flagg's mother says she'll get a tattoo to celebrate if her son caps off his freshman season by leading Duke to a national title.

"If we win the whole thing— I shouldn’t say if, I don’t like that word— when we win the whole thing, then we will get a tattoo to commemorate,” Kelly Flagg said Friday, per The Athletic's Lindsay Schnell. "I’ll get a tattoo anywhere.

"He can pick the spot, except my face, if they do what they need to do.”

The Blue Devils need to defeat Houston in Saturday night's Final Four matchup in order to advance to play either Florida or Auburn in the national championship game.

Flagg has so far averaged 19.5 points through four tournament games, including a 30-spot against Arizona in a Sweet 16 outing Duke head coach Jon Scheyer called "one of the best tournament performances I've ever coached or been a part of."

That run helped Flagg become the fourth freshman to be named the Associated Press' national men's basketball player of the year on Friday.

Kelly and Ralph Flagg were both present on Friday as the AP honored their 18-year-old son with the award.

"It fills us both with an immense amount of pride in all that he has accomplished," Kelly Flagg told NCAA.com's Andy Katz. "When we think he's reached a certain level, he always kind of breaks through the ceiling and goes to the next level."

Getting to the national championship game will involve the Blue Devils making it past a Cougars defense that has said its gameplan centers around guarding Flagg, per ESPN's Myron Medcalf.

In case getting the chance to play for a national title in what could be his lone college season before entering the 2025 NBA draft wasn't motivation enough, Flagg now has choosing his mother's tattoo to think of as he prepares to face the best scoring defense in the nation.