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
came mike pass point recruit tried wait
Do we pass up Mike to wait for Mustafa. That's what it came down to. We weren't going to pass up on Mike. We still tried to recruit Mustafa after that point and he told us that he wasn't interested.
bruised craig painful stiff
Craig bruised his tailbone. It's pretty painful and stiff right now. He could be (out).
moved past
You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.
coaches coaching decisions
You feel like they take coaching out of your hands. You feel like they're coaches on the court. They're going to make the right decisions and if they get fouled, they're going to make their shots.
class establish fans great helped matter seen special tradition
Villanova fans have seen a lot of great classes. For our staff, this class is going to always be special to us, no matter what they do this year. They really helped us establish what we wanted to do here: re-establish the tradition here at Villanova.
There's no way you can simulate it in practice.
win
There's nothing we can do about that, other than win every other game.
looks planned timing
The timing of this is incredible. I know it looks like we really planned this well.
cherish enjoyed moment
We enjoyed this and we wanted to cherish every moment of it.
beat efficient game phase today
We got beat today because they were more efficient in every phase of their game today than we were.
chance gotten guys mean means positive responses teams
We've gotten a lot of positive responses about teams that would take him in the first round. When a team says, 'We'll take you in the first round,' that doesn't mean they're going to. That means they would. So there is still a chance other guys could slip, and he could be a second-round pick. He understands that.
bit
We have more options. We can go a little bit more conventional at times when we have to.
east figure florida game games road south team tough typical win
That was a typical tough game on the road in the Big East. It didn't take South Florida long to figure out how to play like a Big East team. ... That team is going to win some games in this league. They're good.
create easy points
The 17 turnovers did create some easy points for us.