Jay Wright
Jay Wright
Jerold Taylor "Jay" Wright, Jr.is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the men's coach at Villanova University. In 2016, Villanova won the NCAA men’s basketball national championship title game against North Carolina, Wright's first national championship, and Villanova's first since 1985...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 December 1961
CityChurchville, PA
great recover team
To be a great team you have to be able to recover from that.
lucky realize
What if that had been it? All we've got is every day. Let's just take every day and realize how lucky we are.
definitely game learn takes
We definitely used that as something to learn from. It only takes one game and one guy.
loving students
The students are all yelling, 'Final Four, Jay,' ... It's fun. We're loving it.
good loves offensive
He's so good at rebounding. Normally, we always have him going for the offensive glass. He loves it, and so much of rebounding is passion.
best clear closer hoping next realize sit talk time
He's still got time before he can even talk them into a decision. If they clear him, we'll still have to sit down and make a decision. I'm hoping as we get closer he'll realize it'll be best for him to come back next year.
great happy
He's such a warrior. I'm just so happy to see him on the floor. He's really tough, a great competitor.
ball shoot sit unselfish
He's such an unselfish player. I told him he was going to have to shoot the ball or he was going to sit -- it was that simple.
best buried glad line
He's our best free-throw shooter. I'm glad he got on the line and buried them.
beat both depth game impressive knew surprise year
I didn't think someone would do it this year because of the depth of the conference, because of how much every game is going to take out of you. This is real impressive for both teams. It doesn't surprise me, any of the upsets, because we knew we could get beat any night.
carry confidence eyes flag front growing randy ready stadium
And then to see Randy carry the flag into that stadium with 80,000 people. I could see how much confidence he had. He was growing up right in front of my eyes and was ready to take on the season.
devastated surgery
Are they going to give us an asterisk? ... Curtis is going to have surgery on Nov. 11. At first we were devastated but we just went back to work.
beat believed game guys locker lost room talks
I know our guys believed we could beat them and even if we lost this game they would believe it. Everyone talks about our guards, but in our locker room we know what our forwards can do.
feels great group hurts love loves sure
I know it hurts for everybody, but I really want to make sure this group feels great about itself. They love Villanova, they love that experience, and Villanova loves them.