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
basketball campus coming kyle missing pick rather semester
Look at Kyle missing the first semester and coming back and being able to play because of his basketball IQ. Shane has not been on campus the whole first semester, and has been able to come in and pick things up rather quickly.
knew shocked wish
I wish I could tell you I knew this was going to happen, but I just think we're always going to win. I'm more shocked when we lose.
defensive effort guys intense kept matter pleased possession proud score
I was very pleased with our defensive effort, no matter what the score was we kept a very intense effort each possession and I was proud of our guys for that.
fever game pitch played
I was very pleased, very proud. We played every possession. We played at fever pitch and that's what put the game away early.
concerned helped joining motivation playing senior team
I think our team playing well helped him. I know he's very concerned about joining this group, his senior class. That was always his motivation and I didn't want to take that motivation away from him.
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.
coaches earn honor league picked
It is an honor being picked by coaches in a league like this. Now we have to go out and earn it.
hope sure
I sure hope so. That's something we're going to need to do.
circumstance given happened took understand
It did take longer, but, given the circumstances, I understand why it took longer. I don't think given all of our circumstances, it could have happened any quicker.
terrorist
I thought it was a terrorist attack, ... I had no idea what was going on.