# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:44:38.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-wright"
name: "Jay Wright"
slug: "jay-wright"
description: "Jerold Taylor \"Jay\" Wright Jr. is an American former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach of Villanova University from 2001 until 2022. Wright led the Villanova Wildcats to six Big East Conference championships and 16 NCAA tournament appearances in 21 seasons as head coach. Under Wright, Villanova reached four Final Fours and won two national championships in 2016 and 2018."
tagline: "American college basketball coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jay_Wright_Villanova_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1961-12-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.91
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.931967999999999
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/VUCoachJWright"
    handle:    "VUCoachJWright"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جاي رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_(Basketballtrainer)"
    title: "Jay Wright (Basketballtrainer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright"
    title: "Jay Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright"
    title: "Jay Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright"
    title: "Jay Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3807514"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump