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
initially looked worse
It actually looked a lot worse than it was. It's much, much better than they initially anticipated.
ahead catch caught changed country final success surprise time took year
I think it changed the game. I think he was way ahead of his time. He caught the country by surprise the year he went to the Final Four. I think even after years he had all that success going to the Final Four, I think that it still took all of us a long time to catch up.
believe exciting fun great happen hell six time
I think in the back of our guys' minds, they always believe that can happen at any time and they have that great confidence. It's exciting as hell because in two possessions, you're making up six points. It's such a momentum-changer. It's fun to have those shooters.
answer clean finished questions
I think in recruiting, it establishes us. I don't have to answer questions about, Are you going to be there? Are you going to be there when I'm finished playing?' It makes it very clean in recruiting.
best giving proud
It could end in two games. And if it does, as long as we're giving our best effort, I'm proud of them.
amazed basketball confident court summer
It has amazed me how confident he has become in his intellect. The first day on the basketball court here, he was not intimidated. But that summer going to class, he was. It was very obvious. He was scared.
answered beat deserve game good great
I think we beat them on a good night. They're great. They deserve to be No. 1. They answered everything we did, we answered what they did and that's what made a great game between two outstanding teams.
bit
I think we are a little bit more experienced, probably a little bit. We are very similar, but they are a lot different.
further hard
I think they know how hard it's going to be to get any further than that.
best defensive team
I think they are probably the best defensive team in the tournament, ... They are very well-coached, especially on the defensive end.
guys losing player status
I think these guys have been through so much - normally, losing a player of Curtis' status would be devastating.
dirty four great guy keeps nobody talks work
He's always the one nobody talks about. Everyone talks about the four guards. Well if there's four guards, there's one other guy but we never talk about him. He does all the dirty work and he keeps a great attitude.
basketball battling dirty keeps
He's always doing the dirty work. He keeps battling and battling. Will Sheridan is everything that Villanova basketball is about.
anybody good remember unique
He's a unique player. I don't remember anybody like him that good defensively and offensively on the perimeter and in the post.