Villanova Remains Resolute, Relentless as it Heads Back to the Final Four

BOSTON – The nets had been sheared, the TV interviews done, the bucket of confetti dumped over his head by his players on the podium during the post-game trophy presentation. When Villanova coach Jay Wright finally entered his team’s locker room after its 71-59 win over Texas Tech, earning the program its second Final Four appearance in three years, he expected a moment of solitude. After each of their games the Wildcats are lead in a recitation of the “Glory Be” prayer by their team chaplain, Father Rob Hagan, and though Wright had told them to pray without him after Sunday’s victory while he fulfilled post-game media obligations, he was greeted in the hallway by a gleeful Mikal Bridges, who told his coach, “We waited for you!”

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