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
knew love
We knew it was coming. I love him. I told him after the game, he was great. He was a beast.
decision gets knew
We knew he was going to have to make a decision at some point. Once he gets cleared, we've got to know. We've got to make a decision because it's getting to be drama.
careful guys information lose
You have to be careful about that because you don't want to give the guys too much information and lose our aggressiveness.
people proving seem worried year
This year it doesn't seem like people are worried about us proving ourselves, but we feel like we do.
team
When you play a seasoned team like that, and you get a lead, you just know they're going to get a run.
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.
billy group incredible job year
Billy (Donovan) has done an incredible job getting this group together. I think what we all see in them this year is an outstanding team. They just really play off each other.
turned
At the end, he was just exhausted. I turned to him and asked: Have you got one more in you?
guys last playing point putting quietly
At this point last year, we were in catastrophe mode. We were actually putting in new stuff, playing guys at different positions. ... I think we all were quietly apprehensive at this point last year, we didn't know what we were going to do.
against game level scoring tells tonight took
We need to get our forwards involved. We've been working on it. Will has been defending, making plays, but not scoring as much. Tonight he took it to another level in a big game against an outstanding team, which I think tells you a lot about Will Sheridan.
calories chance feet good lost percent week
We need to get him on his feet and just get calories in him, because he's lost so much weight. I think this week will be really good for him. ... He has a chance of being 100 percent by Sunday.
anyone early oklahoma played test
When we played Oklahoma early in the year, that was the test for us. We just thought we're going to have to do this because we don't have anyone else ready.
When we need baskets, they make baskets. When we need stops, they get stops. When we need rebounds, they get rebounds.