If you had to pinpoint McDermott's best spot on the floor, you might focus on the block.

His ability to get the ball in the basket from seemingly impossible positions was uncanny. McDermott's post-up game combined touch, tenacity, footwork, core strength, body control and a left hand among the best college basketball has ever seen.

McDermott's release was so quick, sometimes you wondered if he saw the basket before he let the ball go. Sophomore season, back-to-the-basket post-ups accounted for 105 of his 307 field goals. Junior season, it was only 58. Senior season, it was 47.

For McDermott's career, the split between right post and left post was 146/163. But no matter what side, he preferred to turn baseline, partly because he was so adept at shielding his defender on the high side.

Posting on the right block, he scored 79 career field goals turning to his left shoulder and using his right hand — he was a master of the baby hook.

On the left block, he scored 100 times turning to his right shoulder. But 33 of those came with the left hand. In fact, the signature shot of his sophomore season was a post-up on the left block, turn to the right shoulder and, with a hand in his face, he drained an 8-to-10-foot left-handed shot off glass. Go try that in the driveway.