Villanova coach Jay Wright's path should look familiar to Loyola's Porter Moser
by Shannon Ryan, Chicago Tribune
Mar 29, 2018
4 minutes
CHICAGO - Before they were Final Four coaches, Porter Moser and Jay Wright met 25 years ago over a feast in Las Vegas as up-and-coming assistant coaches.
Moser, now Loyola's head coach, was just a few years removed from college in his early 20s, working his way up the coaching ladder on Tony Barone's Texas A&M staff. Wright, now Villanova's head coach, was in his early 30s on Rollie Massimino's UNLV staff after a five-year stint on his Villanova staff, two seasons away from landing his first head coaching gig.
"Two guys like Rollie Massimino and Tony Barone, of course,
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