Kyle Neptune appreciates the seismic change that’s come to college basketball from Jay Wright’s retirement.

The coach embodied everything about Villanova’s basketball program and he won’t be on the sidelines when the Wildcats start their new season, writes John Fanta for Fox Sports.

This time it will be Neptune himself as head coach, the 37-year-old from Brooklyn.

Replacing Wright with Neptune kept it all in the family. After all, Neptune spent 10 of the last 14 years on Wright’s coaching staff.

“I really feel like I grew up here,” said Neptune.

He started at Villanova in 2008 at age 23 as the program’s video coordinator so a lot of his experience was gained at Villanova.

“Of course, I’m a different person than Jay (Wright). But that said, right now I have to be who I am, and who I am happens to be a lot of what Villanova basketball is.”

Collin Gillespie, one of Villanova’s greatest players, said Neptune will get the best out of the players and put them in the best situations to be successful. When you need to be pushed, he’ll push you. When you need encouragement, he’ll give you that, too, Gillespie said.

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