Gianna Santacroce was the last Southold girls basketball player to take her talents to college back in 2021 — until her little sister, Francesca, just committed to play for the same university, Ave Maria.

“When I was being recruited and they found out that my sister played there, they were like, ‘Oh, we want you here 100 percent. We want this legacy to continue,’ ” Francesca told The Post.

“They even asked, ‘Are there any younger of you?’ ” added the senior star point guard on Greenport-Southold’s joint team.

While Francesca is the youngest, athletic skills are certainly in the family blood beyond Gianna, who just finished her four years on the court at Ave Maria last season as a small forward.

Their older brother, Kevin, was a quarterback on Pace University’s football team in 2016, an

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