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
boards game hitting offensive shooting
They were shooting over us. And you could really see them hitting the offensive boards as part of their game plan.
depth great playing wore
They were playing great early. I think that our depth just kind of wore them down.
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They were on the top of every aspect of their game. We will learn from this. You've got to beat the best team in their own house.
failure fear minutes whatever
They just don't fear failure. They've been through so much. They're going to play you for 40 minutes and whatever happens, happens.
basketball behalf dangerous family fortunate injury last obviously positive prayers received thank
On behalf of Allan, his family and our basketball family, I would like to thank everyone for the well-wishes and prayers Allan has received in the last 36 hours. Obviously Allan is very fortunate to have come through a potentially dangerous injury with these positive results.
asking
It's been something we've been asking him to do. He's so unselfish.
games joy
It's just a joy to be a part of games like this.
anybody hope next playing seems trouble
It seems like they're playing as well as anybody in the country. I hope I'm right. It not, we're in trouble the next game.
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.
exact happened playing risk
It's going to be important for him to get back playing and just feel good. The only risk he has is the exact same thing happening, but that's the same risk as if it never happened before.
regular respect sign
It's real sign of respect for what we did in the regular season.
case credit florida four wish
As a coach, everything I have I stole from somebody. In the Florida game, it was more of a case of, let's get through this, than, let's go to four guards. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's not really the case.