Father and Son Find Bliss at Creighton GREENSBORO, N.C. - Two years ago, Greg McDermott was in the Big 12 as Iowa State's coach, and his son Doug had signed a letter of intent to play for Northern Iowa. Two years later, they are both at Greensboro Coliseum with No. 8 Creighton, facing top-seeded North Carolina in the N.C.A.A. tournament Sunday. And it seems they are both where they belong. The elder McDermott resigned after four difficult seasons at Iowa State and a 59-68 record to accept a 10-year contract to coach Creighton beginning in 2010-11. "I made some mistakes," Greg McDermott said Saturday. I made some mistakes in recruiting. I made some mistakes with my dealings with some of our players that resulted in some guys transferring. And I think if you understand yourself and you take a look in the mirror, you better grow from that and learn from that. But I think we all know recruiting is a little different animal at the B.C.S. level than it is at the midmajor level, and I fit better here and I'm very comfortable with that. McDermott, who had winning records at Wayne State, North Dakota State and Northern Iowa before going to Iowa State, had a 52-21 record in two seasons with Creighton going into the North Carolina game. Greg McDermott was not sure his son, who was undersize in high school before developing into a 6-foot-7, 220-pound forward in college, would be the right fit at Iowa State. And Doug McDermott saw enough to know that wasn't the right place for him. "To be honest, I didn't really want to play for him there, either," Doug McDermott said. But when Greg McDermott accepted the job at Creighton, Doug was allowed out of his commitment at Northern Iowa to join his father. It could not have worked out much better for both. "I think that the Missouri Valley is just a really good fit for him," Doug McDermott said of his father, "a midmajor conference, a really good league, and I just think the Big 12 might have been a little bit of a wake-up call. I think he's more comfortable in the Missouri Valley Conference recruiting wise, and he just feels in his comfort zone, so he's really happy to be here. As a sophomore, Doug McDermott was third in the country in scoring this season at 23.2 points per game going into the tournament, earning all-America honors along the way. "I felt like I was a Missouri Valley Conference fit, I felt like it was a good fit for mat at Northern Iowa and at the time we just decided to go our separate ways and here we are now," Doug McDermott said. So it's been a fun ride so far.