Austin Hatch probably should be dead. Who survives two plane crashes?

But he’s going to the Final Four.

Hatch won’t take a shot, grab a rebound or play any defense for Michigan when it faces NCAA Tournament darling Loyola Chicago in Saturday’s national semifinal in San Antonio. He won’t even be in uniform.

The 23-year-old Hatch, who was recruited to play at Michigan and then had his playing dreams derailed when he nearly died after being involved in the second plane crash of his young life, is an undergraduate student assistant for the Michigan basketball team.

Hatch will be on the Wolverines’ bench wearing a suit and tie instead of a uniform this weekend. As a senior, whether it’s Saturday’s national semifinal or Monday’s title game, this is what he called “my last go-round’’ as a part of the school so integral in saving his life.

Hatch, who starred at Canterbury School in Fort Wayne, Ind., when he was recruited by Michigan coach John Beilein, lost his mother, Julie; brother, Ian; and sister, Lindsay; when, as an 8-year-old, he was involved in a 2003 plane crash. He survived that crash only because his father, Dr. Stephen Hatch, threw him from the burning wreckage.

Austin’s father piloted the single-engine planes in both accidents.

In the 2003 crash, the Hatches were flying back from their summer home in Michigan’s northwestern Lower Peninsula, where Stephen Hatch and his brothers owned property. According to a NTSB report, Stephen Hatch was flying in a low ceiling in dark conditions and might have run low on fuel when the plane hit a utility pole and crashed.

In the 2011 crash, which occurred nine days after a 16-year-old Austin committed to play at Michigan, his father, stepmother, Kimberly, and a family dog were killed when their plane flew into the garage of a home near the Charlevoix Municipal Airport en route to the same family vacation home to celebrate Austin’s signing. Poor weather was stated as an issue as Stephen Hatch attempted to land.

Following the second crash, doctors put Austin into a medically induced coma with a traumatic brain injury, a broken collarbone and a punctured lung. He was in the coma for eight weeks and when he woke up Hatch had to relearn how to walk, talk, eat and even breathe.

Beilein, meanwhile, honored the scholarship he’d promised Hatch, who spent his final two years of high school living with an uncle in California and eventually made it back to the court for Loyola High. So Hatch went to Michigan, beginning in 2015.

He met his fiancée, Abby Cole, there. He’ll graduate in a month, take a job in business development for Domino’s Pizza at its corporate office in Ann Arbor and marry Cole in June.

The two plane crashes took his entire immediate family away from him and robbed him of a promising basketball career, but Hatch chooses to embrace what he still has rather than dwell on what he lost.

“Words can’t describe how grateful I am for the opportunity to be a part of this program,’’ Hatch told The Post at the West Regional in Los Angeles, where Michigan advanced to the Final Four. “I’m extremely grateful for all that coach Beilein has done for me, honoring my scholarship … for the way he’s made me feel like a part of this program — even though I’m not able to do the things he recruited me to do.

“Coach doesn’t treat guys differently based on how they play. He serves players’ hearts, not their talent.’’

Beilein, who invited Hatch to accompany the team during the NCAA Tournament (he usually sits on the team bench only for home games) called Hatch “one of the greatest stories I think that I’ve ever been associated with and am pleased to be a part of.

“It makes your heart warm,’’ Beilein said. “If we’ve been a small part of his life, it’s tremendous. He’s been a huge part of my life and this team’s life.”

Hatch played in five games during his freshman season at Michigan in 2015 and scored one point, the middle free throw of three against Coppin State.

Before his sophomore season, he went on a medical scholarship, saying, “My body can’t execute what my mind tells it to do. I can think the game as well as I ever did; I just can’t drive baseline and dunk anymore.”

On senior day last month at the Crisler Center, he dressed for the Wolverines’ final home game against Ohio State and went through warm-ups, and received a huge ovation from the crowd.

“He’s such an inspiration to us,” Michigan senior guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman said. “He tries to uplift us. We’re really glad he’s on our team.”

Asked if he has any idea how good he could have been, Hatch, who averaged 18 points and seven rebounds as a freshman at Canterbury and 23.3 points and 9.3 rebounds as a sophomore, grows slightly uncomfortable.

“I don’t know,’’ he said. “Who knows how good I would have been? Maybe I could have gotten here my freshman year and torn my ACL. I’d hoped to be a great player for Michigan, a major contributor to this team. I must have been OK.’’

If you’re recruited to play basketball at Michigan on a full ride, you were more than “OK.’’

But none of that matters now. Not to Hatch. Not to Beilein.

Though Hatch has no recollection of the second plane crash and the moments leading up to it, he has a keen recall of certain important moments in his life before the accident — like when he first met Beilein as a sophomore in high school.

“January 18, 2011,’’ Hatch said. “It was the one game coach Beilein came to see me play. It was at Canterbury High. We beat a rival from another town, 88-82.’’

Hatch is not a person who has regrets. He’s not the woe-is-me type. If he ever asks himself — “why me?’’ — he does so not wondering why he had so much taken away from him, but why he was spared death while the rest of his immediate family lost their lives.

“I don’t feel like it was stolen from me, because I never held my identity tied to basketball,’’ Hatch said. “Obviously, when I originally committed I hoped to be a great player here. I’m not going to lie: It would be totally cool to be able to play in these games on the big stage and play in March Madness. That would be awesome.

“But I have so many things to look forward to in life. It’s obviously a tough situation, and I’ll never move on, but I’ve made a decision to focus more on what I’m blessed to still have in my life. I’m very blessed with more than I deserve.’’

Hatch never lost an ounce of his inner drive after the second plane crash.

“Before the accident, I was working to be the best basketball player I could be,’’ he said. “Then this happened and my mindset didn’t change. The goal shifted, but my mindset didn’t. When the accident happened, that was beyond my control. But I knew I had control over how I responded to it.

“I had been working to be as good a basketball player I could be at Michigan, and now I was working to make the best recovery from a traumatic brain injury that’s ever been made in the history of the world.’’

You’d be hard-pressed to argue that Hatch didn’t accomplish that.

“I can say, given where I am today and having been where I was six years ago, I’m pretty proud … but not in the sense of look-at-me,’’ Hatch said. “I don’t really have any regrets. My biggest thing since I’ve been here at Michigan is I really don’t want to wish I’d worked harder. My time here is only four years and it’s goes fast.’’

It’ll really feel like it went by fast when he graduates in a few weeks and then marries Cole. They met in a political science class at Michigan, where she played volleyball for four years and now works for the Wolverines’ athletic department in development.

His recollection of that moment is as seared into his memory as that night Beilein scouted him in high school.

“She walked into class late — PoliSci — on October 26, 2013,’’ Hatch recalled with a smile. “She was looking for a seat and I flagged her down and said, ‘I’ve got a seat right here next to me.’ ’’

Cole’s family is now Hatch’s new immediate family.

“Obviously, my immediate family is no longer here,’’ Hatch said. “I don’t attempt to diminish the significance of that loss. But I’m very blessed to have the loving family that I do.’’

Asked if he’s afraid of flying now, Hatch didn’t hesitate with his answer.

“Not at all, I’m not afraid of flying at all,’’ he said. “Flying was normal for me. It was as normal as driving. We flew everywhere. Obviously, the plane crashes have been awful and the repercussions of those have been worse than anyone can imagine.

“Obviously, the odds of me getting into another plane crash are extremely slim. This is going to sound kind of morbid, but I don’t fear death. I don’t fear dying. I am not afraid.’’