Just Tuesday morning, a talk-show host was pressing Jay Wright on the question Wright is often asked this time of year: When are you going to the NBA, Jay? Wright laughed and said what he usually says: that he has the best job in college basketball, that he loves being part of the Philadelphia sports scene, that the beauty of coaching at Villanova is that — relative to the coaches of the pro teams in town — Wright faces little public backlash when the Wildcats lose a big game.
If Wright doesn’t take the same amount of heat here for losing to Wisconsin or North Carolina State in the round of 32 that, say, Roy Williams would in Chapel Hill, it’s also fair to note he probably doesn’t get the proper credit locally for what he has achieved.