Daily News | Coach K made this Final Four about endings. Jay Wright made it clear Villanova is just getting started. | Mike Sielski
, acknowledged that Gillespie’s and Samuels’ departures made for a sad and sentimental night, there was an edge and frustration to him that was unmistakable.
Yes, Villanova didn’t have Justin Moore and was shorthanded for his absence. Yes, Kansas would have been favored anyway. But it was clear that Wright wasn’t interested in handing out any praise to his players just for trying hard. They had allowed the Jayhawks to race out to a 10-0 lead. They had too often left Ochai Agbaji open. With or without Moore, they hadn’t played well enough to win, and that fact was eating at him.It’s funny about the Final Four, what that term, that branding, has done.
But here’s the thing: No coach in the heat of the games that count most holds that outsider’s view, and Wright didn’t hold it for this Villanova team, either. Outside the locker room, he called the Kansas loss “the lowest of the low.” Being able to say,didn’t make the outcome easier for him to take. It made it harder for him to stomach, because the greater glory, the greatest in the sport, was so close.
“And I don’t want it to,” he said. “Part of being a competitor is really sitting in this and learning from it so it fuels you later. Tomorrow, we’ll wake up – new day, new attitude. But right now, you’ve got to live in this, and you’ve got to admit what another team did extremely well that you didn’t do. It’s OK to just sit in that, and if you sit in it, no one will just blow it off. It’s going to fuel you later.
That doesn’t sound like a coach who’s thinking about the end of his career at all, in any context. That sounds like a coach who – two national championships, four Final Fours, and 21 years in at the program he has turned into a powerhouse – thinks he’s just getting started. And that’s reason enough to think Jay Wright and Villanova will be back here, and soon.
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