UNC’s Luke Maye Returning to Chapel Hill for Senior Season

North Carolina junior forward Luke Maye has announced that he will withdraw his name from the NBA Draft and will return to Chapel Hill for his senior season.

Maye never hired an agent, meaning the possibility always existed for him to return to UNC for one more season.

A First Team All-ACC and Third Team All-American performer this past season, Maye averaged 16.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game for the Tar Heels–numbers that included three games of at least 30 points.

He posted the news to his Instagram account:

I have had a great experience learning from the NBA process and growing as a basketball player during the past couple weeks. I would like to thank my family, friends, coaches and teammates for all of their support. Through this process, I have decided that I am going to comeback to school to improve as a player and finish my college career. I am looking forward to the opportunities and challenges that I will face and there is no better group to do it with than my teammates and the Carolina family! Time to finish the right way with two of the best players and leaders that I know! Let’s finish our legacy the right way!#RoadtoMinneapolis

I have had a great experience learning from the NBA process and growing as a basketball player during the past couple weeks. I would like to thank my family, friends, coaches and teammates for all of their support. Through this process, I have decided that I am going to comeback to school to improve as a player and finish my college career. I am looking forward to the opportunities and challenges that I will face and there is no better group to do it with than my teammates and the Carolina family! Time to finish the right way with two of the best players and leaders that I know! Let’s finish our legacy the right way!#RoadtoMinneapolis

A post shared by Luke Maye (@luke_maye32) on May 24, 2018 at 5:34am PDT