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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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.
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I don't want to slow him down at all right now because he's excited about the possibility of coming back. I know he looks at it as his goal and I don't want to take away his dream. And if he does decide to play, I'm going to let him. I'm hoping as time goes on, his enthusiasm is matched with some deep thinking, which I think it will be, and then we look more toward the future.
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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.
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It's not really a problem right now. In June it could be, but right now, it's not.
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His leg strength is at about 90 percent of where it was before. He's doing resistance work and is shooting every day.
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I feel like we spent a weekend in Scranton. My sons were wearing Gerry McNamara shirts (but) not during the game.
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He?s going to be a factor. He sits back there and protects the basket.
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Connecticut was just really sharp; they clicked on everything today. They were more efficient in all phases of the game.
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They had so many pros and we've got work to do.
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It's a calculated risk. We are confident we'll be able to do that, but it's still a risk. Until you get it back, it's never in the bag.
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I know how many shots Noah blocked. I'm not sure how many shots he altered. He is outstanding.
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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.
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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.
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I never thought about taking him out. I said to myself, 'We're going to go down with him.