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.
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.
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Obviously this was an incredible Big East battle. We just said to ourselves, this is BIG EAST game No. 1 - it tells you what this league will be like...Timely shots by Allan Ray, Jason Frazier and Dante Cunningham kept us in the game. Every time Louisville made runs at us, those guys made big plays. Game number one in the Big East, that's what it's going to be like.
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.
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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.
protects
He?s going to be a factor. He sits back there and protects the basket.
clicked efficient phases
Connecticut was just really sharp; they clicked on everything today. They were more efficient in all phases of the game.
pros work
They had so many pros and we've got work to do.
calculated confident risk until
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.
noah shots sure
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.
taking
I never thought about taking him out. I said to myself, 'We're going to go down with him.