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
looks vision
It's his choice. He looks great. His vision is a lot better.
pride stop
It was crazy. We're a pretty defensive-minded team. We take pride in that. We just couldn't stop them.
defensive feeling pride stop
It was crazy. We are a defensive team. We take pride in that. We just couldn't stop them. I just never had the feeling that you can't stop anybody.
difficult front people plans players realizing seed talking
It was so difficult because we were a one seed and people were talking about making plans to Minneapolis right in front of our players and not even realizing what they were doing.
basketball decision difficult leave position prepared surprised thinking
It?s a chance. He understands that. When we recruited him, he never said that he wanted to leave early. I think he?s as surprised that he?s in this position and had to make a decision as anybody. And that?s what was so difficult for him. He was not prepared to make this decision during the basketball season. He was not even thinking about it.
calculated confident risk until
It's a calculated risk. We are confident we'll be able to do that, but it's still a risk. Until you get it back, it's never in the bag.
bowl closest everybody great says
It's a great atmosphere, a great environment. Everybody says it's the closest thing you get to a bowl game.
shooting
I told him, 'We're going to go down with you shooting the ball. That's who we are.
champions half playing second
They're playing like champions and we're out here cruising. I thought we started the second half relaxed.
armed britain great guards guns machine security soldiers teams
There was a lot of security for our team, and the teams from Great Britain and Israel, ... We had armed security guards and soldiers with machine guns with us at all times. That was a wakeup call.
continue
That's really what we've done all year. We just continue to find ways. I don't think we are ever going to be pretty. ... This is who we are.
confidence create good helps team
That's something our team can do because of our depth. I have confidence in our guys, one through twelve, and we have good team quickness. That helps us create turnovers.
ability beauty care foul fun gets guys kyle mike needed randy rebounds score team tonight trouble
That's the beauty of this team. We have a lot of guys who have the ability to score, but give it up because of the other guys. And then when they're needed, they'll do it. Like tonight, we needed Mike and Kyle to score and they did. Randy gets 10 rebounds tonight and he's in foul trouble and he doesn't care because we won. It's a fun team to coach.
advantage allen plays randy
That's the advantage of having seniors, we know that Randy and Allen are going to make those big plays when we need them.