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Villanova, Jay Wright Embracing a 'Totally Different Challenge' After Latest National Title

It’s different this time around. In a way it has been since that night last April in San Antonio, when the confetti popped and wafted down from the Alamodome ceiling and Jay Wright knew how the whole deal would play out. He knew what a national championship celebration entailed because he had partaken in one two years earlier, when Villanova had also won a title, and because of that experience, he now knew better how to navigate what came after. In 2016, he said yes to everything, smiling and waving in every direction, accepting all sorts of invitations to events and ceremonies, because each requestor told him that is what the national champions do.