Former UNC QB Mark Maye, at his Huntersville home in 2002 with his sons, Cole, 4, Beau 1, Luke, 5 and Drake, 3 months. Gayle Shomer/ AP

About an hour after Luke Maye hit the shot that beat Kentucky and sent Carolina basketball on to its 20th Final Four, and eventual NCAA championship, a big, strapping, good-looking guy was trying to get back into the FedEx Forum in Memphis. He wanted to know if the players were celebrating with their families on the court. The man was as nice as he could be, which is one way to describe Mark Maye, the record-breaking UNC quarterback of the 1980s.

Mark married Carolina coed Aimee Sockwell, who was a star basketball player at West Charlotte high school. Her husband went to Independence High and is still considered one of the greatest athletes to ever come out of western North Carolina. They had four boys. And wouldn’t you know it.

Their oldest, Luke, was a great scorer and rebounder at Hough High and wasn’t at first offered a scholarship by Roy Williams. After Maye had played a solid game against Butler in the Sweet Sixteen, Williams was asked if Maye’s play surprised him. “No!” ol’ Roy shot back, explaining what a dumb mistake he made by not giving Luke a scholarship right away instead of a couple of other kids he offered.

So Luke is spending the summer trying to get even slimmer and stronger and honing his inside-outside game as a probable starter at one post position for the 2018 Tar Heels.  Except he was interrupted by the College World Series, which he thought he would be following anyway since Mike Fox’s team was a favorite to get to Omaha.

But his younger brother, Cole, was a reserve pitcher on the Florida Gators, who made it and won the dad gum thing by beating LSU two straight in the final series. So now the Maye family has two national championships to celebrate, and it seems like Luke and Cole’s best days on the hardwood and pitcher’s mound are still to come.

Cole left high school in the middle of his senior year to enroll at Florida early. Luke might have done the same thing if Williams wasn’t so dumb, in his own words. But, both Maye kids will be stars for their respective teams moving forward. Don’t bet against that.

And you know what, there is still Drake, now 15, and Beau, 16, to come. Don’t be surprised if we hear about them one day soon, too. Congrats, Mark and Aimee. Well done.