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Sometimes in life, things just fit perfectly.
Greg McDermott and Creighton? They fit perfectly.
The 58-year-old coach of No. 6 seed Creighton, which plays No. 5 seed San Diego State in the NCAA Tournament South Region final on Sunday at the KFC Yum! Center for the school’s first-ever Final Four berth, is a simple man, which is not to denigrate his intelligence.
McDermott, who has coached at Creighton since 2010, is happy doing what he’s doing and where he’s doing it. In a college basketball world littered with coaches who self-promote with more vigor than they recruit, McDermott is the furthest from that guy.
Because of that, he’s one of the most overlooked and underrated coaches in college basketball. And you know what? He doesn’t care.
Underrated and overlooked suits him. In fact, he uses it as one of the weapons in his coaching arsenal.
“I do think he’s underrated,’’ McDermott’s son, Doug, who plays for the NBA’s Spurs, told The Post by phone Saturday. “But at the same time, this is the way he likes it. He likes being the underdog, and I think his players kind of reflect that. That trickles down from my dad and it goes through the whole roster.’’
Greg McDermott is not a city slicker. He’s not obsessed with where his next coaching stop may be. He’s the anti-Rick Pitino.
“Underrated, overrated, that makes no difference to me,’’ McDermott told The Post on Saturday. “I read a book when I was a young coach that was titled, ‘Make the Big Time Where You Are.
