"We have a meeting once or twice a year, where we bring the whole staff in. [Sports information director] Mike Sheridan, secretaries, trainers, chaplains, to give them a little history lesson. To remind them that when we started here, we were over there [in the Pavilion]. Just to make them understand the story, our story, who we are and how we got here. Because everyone who comes in here now only knows the Davis Center, the Wachovia Center, selling out every game, second weekend of the Tournament, preseason Top 25. That's it. They don't remember going 1-3 in the Big 5. It's so easy to go back there. Don't take this for granted. Take a really hard look at all of it."
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How's that for perspective?
"This is a great sports town," Wright concluded. "For us to be picked first, and a coach from Temple to come in second, that says something . . . Probably my biggest thrill is when we play like the St. Joe game at the Palestra, and I remember as a kid watching the game there. I get as much from that, if not more, than I do at the Final Four or Big East [Tournament] . . .
"[The Daily News] is known for sports. And Villanova going to the Final Four was the winner, in a year when the Phillies went to the World Series again."
Believe it.
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