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
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(Smith and Dudley) are the kind of guys that when you play against them, it's tough to like them. But when you get to know them, they're great kids. You hate to play against them, though, because they kill you. They beat you up.
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Every time we've been tested, they've answered the question.
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The kid's the best. He's a great leader ... It's scary.
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They're playing like champions and we're out here cruising. I thought we started the second half relaxed.
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There was a lot of security for our team, and the teams from Great Britain and Israel, ... We had armed security guards and soldiers with machine guns with us at all times. That was a wakeup call.
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They could both, individually, put up better numbers if they were by themselves. But could they be 27-4? No. They couldn't accomplish these things without each other, and they know that.
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You could see him wearing down so we shut him down for a while in terms of playing. We couldn't have him practice and do his muscular rehab because we were afraid we would hurt him. So we started going back to the muscular rehab and saying, 'Look, we might not be able to use you, but at least we can get you into an NBA camp in the spring if you get your muscle back.' And we saw it start to come back. He still does that, he still works on all the strength training. He even did it out there and I think we're seeing it come back.
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These are champions coming back to prove themselves. I know it's going to be everything they've got.
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These guys - Allan, Randy, Kyle, Mike even - they're tough kids. They enjoy rebounding. They enjoy being basketball players, not just guards that stand out on the perimeter.
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The difference is now, as a one seed, everyone's making plans for Minneapolis. It's a completely different challenge, and it is a challenge.
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The league is a grind. There was just never a time to relax. Every game was a huge game, no matter who came in.
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I thought West Virginia was just great. It's the Big East. You knew it was going to come some time where someone was going to play a better game. We've just got to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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I thought we started the game really strong. But Australia made a great adjustment in the second half, credit to them.
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I thought we started the game really strong and were very focused, which is a credit to our guys playing at 10:30 in the morning. I thought Australia made a great adjustment in the second half by going to a smaller lineup which gave us trouble.