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
crowd cut game home shocked
I thought this was a home game for us. When they cut it to seven, (the crowd noise) shocked me.
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I think we beat them on a good night. They're great. They deserve to be No. 1. They answered everything we did, we answered what they did and that's what made a great game between two outstanding teams.
beat efficient game phase today
We got beat today because they were more efficient in every phase of their game today than we were.
affect biggest cincinnati concern game happens next
Our biggest concern was let's not let what happens at Cincinnati affect the next game. In the Big East, you can't let one game affect the next one, because if you've got any little hangover, you're going to get beat.
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I thought it would be a good challenge for us at this point. Obviously, I wouldn't choose to do that, but it gave us a chance to play big a little bit. ... That was a good experience for us. I think this game is going to really make us stronger.
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That was a typical tough game on the road in the Big East. It didn't take South Florida long to figure out how to play like a Big East team. ... That team is going to win some games in this league. They're good.
experience game good
That was a good experience for us. I think this game is going to really make us stronger.
fever game pitch played
I was very pleased, very proud. We played every possession. We played at fever pitch and that's what put the game away early.
definitely game learn takes
We definitely used that as something to learn from. It only takes one game and one guy.
boards games offensive played poorly shot won
We've won games that way. We've shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense. They were just too good.
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We try to play our four guards, but sometimes we have games where we get off to a good start, and we can speed people up and stay with it. We were having a rough time speeding them up.
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We're pretty defensive-minded and when you look at Louisville's defensive percentage and the 3s they hit, you just feel terrible about how you played. Then you look and we hit 14 3s and that's unbelievable. That was just an incredible college basketball game with two outstanding offensive teams drilling big shot after big shot.
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I find myself saying the same things about him. He is physically capable and mentally capable of doing anything to win a game for you.
found game great grind guys positive rather relax season time using word
I don't ever think I used the word grind about a season and I found myself using it at the end of this one. There was never a time to relax and that's a positive for a great league. We never had to get our guys ready. I'd rather have it that way when every game was a big game.