Luke Maye provides 'priceless' contribution for UNC

Posted Mar 26, 2017
Luke Maye began taking one for the team when he agreed to join the Tar Heels basketball team as a walkon so that coach Roy Williams could hold a couple of scholarships open for other players he was pursuing. When those players decided to go elsewhere, he made “one of the neatest phone calls ever” to the son of former North Carolina quarterback Mark Maye. (North State Journal)

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