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
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.
coming court fans home thank
I actually feel a little guilty. We had home court tonight. I'd like to thank the fans coming out. They were great.
fans feelings game gave gerry great hotel looked mixed nicely sons spent wearing weekend
I had mixed feelings. I wanted it to end nicely for him, but not at our expense. He had a great game and we got the win. We wanted to be focused, but there was so much going on. Our hotel looked like I spent a weekend in Scranton. My sons were wearing Gerry McNamara jerseys that the Scranton fans gave them.
bit coaches fans great guys happens hell lost players sure today toughest understood win
It?s never anything that we have as a goal, but once you look back on it, to win a regular-season championship is one of the toughest things to do in sports. Coaches and players know that. Fans usually get into tournaments and things like that. And that?s OK. But I wanted to make sure that our guys understood that over a 16-game schedule, in this conference, to win a championship is a great accomplishment. If we would have lost today and been 13-3 in this conference, that?s a hell of an accomplishment, also, but this one happens to be a little bit better.
great seen talented
We have seen (Russia), they are very talented and a very tough, disciplined team. It should be a great battle.
seed
There is pressure. You don't want to be the first one seed to go down to a 16 seed.
great loved
We loved being here. It was great being comfortable here.
against execute
We've just got to execute better against better teams.
good hurting job
We did a very good job and I give (Smith) credit. He was hurting us in the first half. He's really good.
effective hurt kept press
When our press was effective at times, it kept them from getting into their (half-court) sets. When they got into their sets, he hurt us.
al both great guys job kyle
When both guys went with Al ... Kyle Lowry actually did a great job of offing to Allan and got it to (Sheridan). It was a great play by all three.
depending knew people teams three
We knew there were going to be times that we're going to play bigger, even three forwards depending on teams we play. It's not real complicated. We can put people in different spots.
body defensive excited fresh good kept mike
We kept Mike and Allan on (McNamara). We wanted to keep a fresh body on him. These two are very good defensive players. They really get excited about guarding people.
blew hit night prepared three
You have to be prepared to have an off-shooting night and still win. We could have hit two or three more threes and everyone would have said we blew them out.