Props to Jay Wright

[Dish]

Props to Jay Wright on his post game tweet. Total class, hard not to like him.

https://twitter.com/vucoachjwright/status/824105167775813632

[wadesworld]

Props to Jay Wright on his post game tweet. Total class, hard not to like him.

https://twitter.com/vucoachjwright/status/824105167775813632

Awesome.  A true gift to the BE.

[ecompt]

Coach Wright is a true gentleman and great coach.

[cheebs09]

My favorite non-MU coach in the Big East. I'll never forget him asking ESPN to move the interview away from the MU locker room after they beat us in OT (Amigos Sr yr). Also, their fans were very fun to talk to.

[MU82]

Pretty darn nice for a guy who was 31-51 in his first three seasons at Hofstra and then 52-46 in his first three seasons at Nova.

Also nice to see Wojo's well ahead of his pace.

Unless, of course, Wojo gets fired because he obviously has doomed our program to mediocrity.

[Benny B]

Are we certain that's Jay, or just Nova's equivalent of a ZFB?

[Dr. Blackheart]

My favorite non-MU coach in the Big East. I'll never forget him asking ESPN to move the interview away from the MU locker room after they beat us in OT (Amigos Sr yr). Also, their fans were very fun to talk to.

Having met Jay, he is a stud.  Look our freshman soccer players

[🏀]

Nova fans were awesome around us all game. Told them to win the whole damn thing again this year.

[Vander Blue Man Group]

Wright is great and so is that program. Great flagship for the Big East.

Hopefully we can get close to that level someday.

[Pepe Sylvia]

Really a supremely stupid thing to get mad about, but I don't hate anyone in conference anymore. I root for every big east team to do good now. All the coaches and players seem to be solid dudes. I miss hating teams. I loved every win against Louisville, ND, Pitt, Syracuse, Uconn, West Virginia,  more than this one against Nova, cuz how can you hate Nova? Hate Creighton? Butler? X? Prov? G-town? Johnnies? Pirates? Demons, as laughable as they are? I need some team to really become a villain right quick.

[kryza]

Really a supremely stupid thing to get mad about, but I don't hate anyone in conference anymore. I root for every big east team to do good now. All the coaches and players seem to be solid dudes. I miss hating teams. I loved every win against Louisville, ND, Pitt, Syracuse, Uconn, West Virginia,  more than this one against Nova, cuz how can you hate Nova? Hate Creighton? Butler? X? Prov? G-town? Johnnies? Pirates? Demons, as laughable as they are? I need some team to really become a villain right quick.

I'm starting to kinda hate Seton Hall

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Only team I really dislike is Creighton. Had a bad run in with their fans McFloppers senior year.

[tower912]

Really a supremely stupid thing to get mad about, but I don't hate anyone in conference anymore. I root for every big east team to do good now. All the coaches and players seem to be solid dudes. I miss hating teams. I loved every win against Louisville, ND, Pitt, Syracuse, Uconn, West Virginia,  more than this one against Nova, cuz how can you hate Nova? Hate Creighton? Butler? X? Prov? G-town? Johnnies? Pirates? Demons, as laughable as they are? I need some team to really become a villain right quick.

It will come.  Right now, there is still shared purpose, proving the Big East still matters, that we don't need football, etc.  And when MU is competing for championships and other teams storm the court after beating us, the hate will come.

[GB Warrior]

Was talking about this with a coworker/Badgers fan today after the win. Rivalries take time and are bred through years of intense competition. We're still coming out of that grace period where there is a brotherhood in the schools that make up the Big East. Part of our rivalries with 'Cuse, UConn, etc., was A.) The fact that we were ALL very good for many of those years and B.) our perpetual little brother syndrome. Did they view us as rivals, or were we really still the new kid on the block that was pesky from time to time? 

If there is any team I dislike, it's Xavier, but it was more for Stainbrook (great guy by all accounts, infuriating player). I wish the teams that came from the Big East were better (us included!), and maybe that would have helped. But going forward, as the level of play rises, it'll get there. I love what the double round-robin does to accelerate that - this is something the B16 doesn't get to enjoy.

I will always miss playing ND, Louisville, Uconn and Cuse (at least til Boeheim kicks off) because they were outstanding. I hope we try to revive some of those in non-con someday when we're a worthy opponent again. But this conference is here to stay and will hopefully make some noise outside of Nova in the near future.

[The Lens]

Jay Wright gets it. 

He know when we grind together, we shine together.

[warriorchick]

Coach Wright is a true gentleman and great coach.

When he's not whining to the refs about every flippin' call that doesn't go Nova's way....

[dgies9156]

When he's not whining to the refs about every flippin' call that doesn't go Nova's way....

Just doing his job Chick, just doing his job.

You want to see whining, you should have been around here when Al didn't get a call.

I really do like Jay Wright. Great guy, great class. Looking forward to beating Villanova many more times in the years ahead.

[reinko]

I'm starting to kinda hate Seton Hall

They have been hateable for a long time.

[cheebs09]

They have been hateable for a long time.

The dirty plays on Dom James are enough of a reason to hate them.

I don't like Creighton. Especially after seeing a Creighton alumni event being hosted in one of the sections of the BC. Their first year in the Big East probably caused a few floors needing to be replaced due to their flopping.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Like Chitown anD Creighton, I hate Butler. Had a bad run in with their fans at the Maui game. Disliked them since

[Coleman]

Really a supremely stupid thing to get mad about, but I don't hate anyone in conference anymore. I root for every big east team to do good now. All the coaches and players seem to be solid dudes. I miss hating teams. I loved every win against Louisville, ND, Pitt, Syracuse, Uconn, West Virginia,  more than this one against Nova, cuz how can you hate Nova? Hate Creighton? Butler? X? Prov? G-town? Johnnies? Pirates? Demons, as laughable as they are? I need some team to really become a villain right quick.

I don't hate anyone either. The games are just really fun and friendly rivalries. Maybe that will change over time. I think a lot of it has to do with the coaches. There isn't a Pitino or Huggy, or similar d-bag like we had in the old Big East, which made it really easy to hate their teams. The current coaches are all class acts.

[Coleman]

When he's not whining to the refs about every flippin' call that doesn't go Nova's way....

I disagree with this analysis. Jay Wright is probably my favorite coach in college basketball. He wins the right way. And he is the George Clooney of sports.

[We R Final Four]

I don't see things drastically changing, because we are now our own fraternity to a certain extent.
The current Big East teams have collectively seen this thing through, weathered the storm, and are in great shape. I too find myself cheering for every BE team non con or in the tournament.
The way I see this changing is a cheap shot(s) and fights like the BE in the 80s. At that point, you will see hatred for opposing teams.
It is hard to HATE a team because they are great shooters or they flop.

[mu03eng]

Really like Wright and Nova, unless MU is somehow involved will always cheer for Nova. Creighton is my go to hate team in the Big East right now. Had a number of run ins with their jag-off fans that has soured me to them forever. Seton Hall I dislike, no opinion on X. DePaul would be a hateable team if they weren't so pathetic.

[CreanLover]

I forget if it was when the made the FF or won the title, but Wright went out of his way in the post game to mention by name some of their older alums, who were still very involved in the program. I thought it was a very rare thing for a big time coach to do something like that in a big moment. He's not a phony, he's just a solid guy...reminds me a little of Izzo.

By the way, I think Wojo is cut from the same cloth.