Greg McDermott is worried about a lot of things heading into Saturday’s Creighton-Wichita State showdown.

Grant Gibbs’ confidence isn’t one of them.

“He’s got plenty of confidence,’’ said the Creighton coach with a “why-did-you-even-ask-that” expression.

Gibbs hasn’t scored since burying a 3-point shot early in the second half of Creighton’s Feb. 1 win over Illinois State. His scoreless drought has lasted 73½ minutes. He missed his last shot against the Redbirds, his four attempts in the loss to Northern Iowa and his three shots in the loss to Evansville.

Like his coach, Gibbs downplays his pointless streak

“You can see the blueprint on how teams think they can beat us now,’’ Gibbs said. “People are going to play me to score more instead of being a distributor. I’m going to have to be a little more aggressive.

“But I have to still play into our game plan, play inside-out and look for my opportunities and try to make some things happen. But missing a couple of shots isn’t going to wear me down. I’ve played a lot of basketball games in my life.’’

Scoring has been secondary all season for Gibbs, who is shooting 49.1 percent from the field while averaging 7.2 points per game. His primary worth is distributing the ball and setting up teammates, and no Bluejay has performed that role better than Gibbs for the past 35 seasons.

He ranks 32^nd nationally in assists per game (5.7). No Creighton player has averaged more than 5.5 assists since Randy Eckker averaged 7.3 during the 1976-77 season.

That’s the part of Gibbs’ game that opponents are trying to take away by having his defender play off of him. At first glance, it appears opponents are almost daring him to shoot.

Instead, they’re trying to clog up the passing lanes, especially the ones that Gibbs has effectively used in getting the ball to Doug McDermott, the Bluejays’ scoring leader and player of the year candidate.

Gibbs knows that the best way he can negate that strategy is to come out and make some shots.

“It’s important to come out and hit some shots but I’m just going to come out and play my game,’’ he said. “I have to keep doing what I’ve been doing all year, and provide my team with a spark.

“What it comes down to is we just have to keep doing our jobs. When we’ve done that, we’ve been pretty good.’’