Per Duke Comms:
The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) has released its 2025 All-District Teams, with Duke freshmen Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel and Khaman Maluach, along with head coach Jon Scheyer, all earning recognition in the South Atlantic division. The NABC honors are voted on by NABC-member coaches across NCAA Division-I.
Flagg and Knueppel earned a spot on the South Atlantic First Team, while Maluach was a second-team selection and Scheyer was named South Atlantic District Coach of the Year.
The NABC introduced a new model for its Division I district alignment this season, with schools arranged by state rather than by conference. The modernized NABC Division I district alignment features 10 geographic regions that each encompass multiple states. Every Division I school in each given state belongs to that state’s corresponding district.
Flagg currently leads the team in points (18.9), rebounds (7.5), assists (4.1), blocks (1.3) and steals (1.5) – the only player to rank among the ACC’s top-10 in all five major statistical categories. The freshman is currently the third-highest rated player in the history of the KenPom Player of the Year Standings (since 2011) with a rating of 2.572, trailing Frank Kaminsky of Wisconsin in 2015 (2.794) and Zach Edey of Purdue in 2024 (2.699).
Knueppel helped lead Duke to its 23rd ACC Tournament title, with the freshman earning MVP honors with three-game averages of 21.0 points, 5.7 rebounds and 4.7 assists. The freshman also earned All-ACC Second Team and ACC All-Freshman honors following the conclusion of the regular season and is the fourth-highest rated player in the nation, according to EvanMiya’s combined offensive and defensive performance rating.
Maluach is the third freshman to earn All-District honors and holds the third-highest offensive rating (141.2) in the nation among all players on KenPom. He also holds the second-best shooting percentage in the ACC on two-pointers (.706), while leading the conference in offensive rebounding percentage (19.8) and registering the fourth-highest block rate (6.0) in the conference.
Scheyer became the first head coach in conference history to win the ACC Tournament twice in his first three seasons as a head coach, and his 85 total victories exceeds the standard set by Bill Guthridge (80, North Carolina, 1997-2000) for the most wins by an ACC coach in their first three seasons overall. The Blue Devils enter the NCAA Tournament with a 31-3 record and currently hold a 38.15 net rating on KenPom, the second-highest in the history of KenPom (since the 1996-97 season), trailing only the 1998-99 Blue Devils, who finished with a 43.01 net rating. With Scheyer at the helm this season, Duke currently leads the nation in scoring margin (20.8) and winning percentage (.912), while ranking seventh for scoring defense (61.9) and field goal percentage defense (.386). The Blue Devils also top the ACC in scoring offense (82.7) and scoring defense (61.9), and could become the first team in ACC history to lead the conference in both categories. In addition, Duke’s 10 conference wins +25 points are the most by any team in a season in ACC history.
The Blue Devils have had at last one All-District selection in 29 consecutive seasons with multiple selections in all but six of those seasons. Duke was the only program in the South Atlantic District with three selections and one of just four programs with multiple honorees (Clemson, High Point, Wake Forest).
