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
challenge chance choose experience game gave good
I thought it would be a good challenge for us at this point. Obviously, I wouldn't choose to do that, but it gave us a chance to play big a little bit. ... That was a good experience for us. I think this game is going to really make us stronger.
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I'm so glad we are going to have the chance to recognize Coach Kraft in this way for the enormous contributions he made to our program.
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We now have a long-term commitment, a new practice facility planned, a newly expanded conference and renovations planned for the Pavilion. There's nowhere our staff and my family would rather be.
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.
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I think these guys have been through so much - normally, losing a player of Curtis' status would be devastating.
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It is an honor being picked by coaches in a league like this. Now we have to go out and earn it.
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Jason has gone through more injuries than any player we have ever coached. He has a great reservoir of faith and mental toughness. We are confident he will come back strong from this.
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My original plan was to allow Curtis to come back, practice, see how he feels and decide game by game what he wanted to do. But this has become such a distraction to our team. There have been some national reports that, I just don't know where they're getting this information, and they're false ... so it's kind of sped up this process.
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My wife and I talk about it all the time. We have three kids, and we're on them all the time, telling them what to do, who they should listen to.
Look at your future, that's what I want him to think.
happiness happy players strong teams
Look at the teams that get No. 1 seeds. They're always traditionally strong programs. I'm happy for all the Villanova players that we got that.
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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.
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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.