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
exactly
I got to see exactly what I wanted to see.
necessary weapon win
He just did what was necessary to win the game. And having that weapon is valuable.
glass good liked might pound surprise
He's good. We actually recruited him. We really liked him. ... You know what he's going to do. He's just going to pound you. He's going to go to the glass every time. He's going to be very physical. He's a good player. He might surprise some people, but he doesn't surprise us because we recruited him.
billy group incredible job year
Billy (Donovan) has done an incredible job getting this group together. I think what we all see in them this year is an outstanding team. They just really play off each other.
taking
I never thought about taking him out. I said to myself, 'We're going to go down with him.
experiment
It's really been an experiment to this point. So far, it's been working out.
conference figure florida road south tough
Typical, tough conference road game. It didn't take South Florida long to figure out how to play in the Big East.
fortunate last
We were very fortunate the last game. You don't want to get down to them here.
quicker smaller
We are smaller than them, but we are quicker and we have depth. When we speeded it up, I thought that was to our advantage.
basketball played ran shoot team
We ran into a team that played better basketball than us. I think we can play a lot better and we can shoot a lot better, and the other team had a lot to do with that. They were really good.
advantage enjoy enjoyment hanging players road spend team time
We really enjoy as a team the time that we spend together, just coaches, players hanging out. We always get that on the road. There is an enjoyment to being on the road for us and that's what Minneapolis will be like. We think we're even tighter on the road. We're going to really take advantage and enjoy that.
doctor expecting practice today
We're expecting the doctor to say he can practice. If he is cleared, he'll practice today right after his appointment.
pictures
We're going to do it nicely, so he'll do it with me and he'll be in the pictures with his classmates.
gives size
We're going to need him. He gives us more size out on the perimeter.