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
responsibility screaming seniors trouble yelling
If we have seniors like this and I'm yelling and screaming at halftime, we're in a lot of trouble. They've got to take responsibility and they did.
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.
basketball best class great playing proud schedule senior win
I'm proud of our guys, that our senior class can be called champions. Over a 16-game schedule in this conference, to win a championship is a great accomplishment. I think we're playing our best basketball right now.
class proud senior
I'm proud of our guys, that our senior class can be called champions.
encourage excited fact full progress senior
I'm very excited about the fact that his progress has been so encouraging. But I still would, however, encourage him to come back and have a full senior season.
bothered confidence great last nice senior strong tournament year
That is nice for him, and last year in the tournament he struggled. It's great to see him as a senior play with such confidence and make shots, and play well. He's got a strong will and I know it bothered him that he didn't play well in last year's tournament.
both definitely gay impact key leadership parallel senior teams williams
I definitely see the comparison. Both teams had key senior leadership and I can see the parallel between Rudy Gay and Marvin Williams and the impact that each has. I had never really thought about this before, but I definitely see it.
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.