Still, McDermott didn’t have many offers out of high school. Some thought he’d play for his dad at Iowa State. Doug said he initially wanted nothing to do with that. So when it was time to pick, he was intrigued by Creighton, Loyola of Chicago and Northern Iowa. It was UNI that won out. Doug “fell in love” with the Panthers during his official visit. This in spite of the fact that he was likely to redshirt that first season at UNI because, in his words, he “wasn’t good enough for the first year.”