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
became chance cumulative effect focused forget grow guy second talked
When we got back to Philadelphia and we talked about it, we just said, we got a second chance here - we got a second chance in life, forget about basketball. It just made every guy grow up - I think every guy became a little more mature, a little more focused on what's important in life, and I think it had a cumulative effect on our team.
credit finished goes good sign
We struggled, and a lot of that credit goes to Marquette. But we finished it off, and that's a sign of a really good team.
anytime beat bit hunger regain understanding
What we'll take from that is to regain a little bit of hunger and an understanding that we can get beat anytime by anybody.
creating gets hung positives problems videos
There are some positives to this. It is creating problems for the other team, too. So we have hung with it. It gets us by. I am not making any videos on it, I will tell you that.
felt game great hitting hold job tempo year
We really haven't had a game like that this year where we just felt like we couldn't get things going offensively. I thought that Pittsburgh, once they got a hold of the game, did a great job of just controlling the tempo and hitting big shots.
defensive pride stop
We're a defensive team. We take pride in that. And we just couldn't stop them. ...I've never had that feeling, where you just couldn't stop somebody.
basketball gave great guys hurt played ran suck sure team tonight
We ran into a team that played better basketball today. We're going to suck up this hurt tonight but I want to make sure my guys feel great about themselves. They gave everything they had.
four happy minutes pain played prepared
We're always prepared not to have him and it's been that way for four years. We're happy for him personally. He isn't in pain and he played 26 minutes that way.
everybody hear mythical spend talking talks time
We hear it all the time, so you think about it because everybody talks about it around here. We spend all our time with each other talking about, 'Forget about it.' It's such a mythical thing and everybody talks about it.
god
We're right where we wanted to be right now. Honestly, I didn't think it would take this long. God had other plans. We had some struggles.
devastated surgery
Are they going to give us an asterisk? ... Curtis is going to have surgery on Nov. 11. At first we were devastated but we just went back to work.
june problem
It's not really a problem right now. In June it could be, but right now, it's not.
leg percent resistance shooting strength work
His leg strength is at about 90 percent of where it was before. He's doing resistance work and is shooting every day.
gerry shirts sons spent wearing weekend
I feel like we spent a weekend in Scranton. My sons were wearing Gerry McNamara shirts (but) not during the game.