2022 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season

2022 Big Ten Conference men' soccer season
2022 Big Ten Conference men' soccer season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Soccer
Duration	August 2022; through December 2022
Number of teams	8
TV partner(s)	Fox Sports (Fox/FS2, BTN)
2023 MLS SuperDraft
Top draft pick	Joshua Bolma, 4th overall
Picked by	New England Revolution
Regular season
Champions	Maryland
Season MVP	MD Myers
Tournament
Champions	Rutgers
Runners-up	Indiana
Finals MVP	MD Myers
Men's Soccer seasons
	← 2021 2023 →

Last updated April 05, 2024

2022 Big Ten Conference men's soccer standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 17 Maryland+	4	–	0	–	4	11	–	4	–	5
Ohio State+	4	–	2	–	2	11	–	3	–	6
Rutgers ‡	4	–	2	–	2	10	–	5	–	6
No. 2 Indiana+	3	–	1	–	4	14	–	4	–	7
Penn State	3	–	2	–	3	6	–	6	–	4
Wisconsin	3	–	4	–	1	6	–	6	–	4
Michigan State	3	–	4	–	1	6	–	9	–	2
Northwestern	1	–	5	–	2	3	–	9	–	5
Michigan	1	–	6	–	1	4	–	10	–	3


‡ – 2022 B1G Tournament champion + – At-large invitation to the 2022 NCAA tournament As of December 13, 2022 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Source: Big Ten

The 2022 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season was the 31st season of college soccer play for the Big Ten Conference and part of the 2022 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. This was the Big Ten's tenth season with 14 teams. The Maryland Terrapins were the Big Ten Champions.^[1]

Previous season

Penn State were the Big Ten regular season champions, earning their first Big Ten regular season title since 2013. The Nittany Lions also completed the double by winning the 2021 Big Ten Men's Soccer tournament, making it their first tournament title since 2005. The Nittany Lions earned the conference's automatic berth into the 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer tournament.

Besides Penn State, Big Ten runners-up and third place finishers, Maryland and Indiana, respectively, earned at-large berths into the NCAA tournament. Penn State and Indiana earned national seeds, with Penn State earning the 12th overall seed, while Indiana earned the 15th overall seed. Maryland was eliminated in the opening round by LIU. Indiana reached the third round (Sweet Sixteen) before losing to eventual national runners-up, Washington. Penn State was eliminated by Hofstra by a record 2–8 scoreline.

Two Big Ten players were selected with the first two picks of the 2022 MLS SuperDraft. Maryland's Ben Bender, was selected by expansion club, Charlotte FC with the first overall draft pick.^[2]^[3] Indiana goalkeeper, Roman Celentano, was selected second overall by FC Cincinnati. Additionally, Farai Mutatu, Brett St. Martin, and Daniel Bloyou were drafted.

Coaching changes

There was one head coaching change ahead of the 2022 season. Wisconsin head coach, John Trask was relieved of his duties following the 2021 season.^[4] Wisconsin hired Loyola Chicago head coach, Neil Jones.^[5]

Coaches

Note: All stats current through the completion of the 2021 season

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Years at school	Overall record	Record at school	B1G record
Indiana	Todd Yeagley	Wisconsin	11	129–54–36 (.671)^[6]	122–45–34 (.692)^[6]	35–15–18 (.647)^[6]
Maryland	Sasho Cirovski	Hartford	28	412–156–60 (.704)^[7]	386–143–53 (.709)^[7]	24–9–7 (.688)^[7]
Michigan	Chaka Daley	Providence	9	151–165–48 (.481)^[8]^[9]	61–54–21 (.526)^[8]^[9]	23–20–9 (.529)^[8]^[9]
Michigan State	Damon Rensing	Michigan State (asst.)	12	117–66–30 (.620)^[10]	117–66–30 (.620)^[10]	31–26–13 (.536)^[10]
Northwestern	Tim Lenahan	Lafayette	20	305–209–72 (.582)	169–140–51 (.540)	36–60–20 (.397)
Ohio State	Brian Maisonneuve	Indiana (asst.)	4	17–41–5 (.310)^[11]	17–41–5 (.310)^[11]	6–24–3 (.227)^[11]
Penn State	Jeff Cook	Bethlehem Steel (asst.)	4	220–160–57 (.569)^[12]	40–22–8 (.629)^[12]	21–7–4 (.719)^[12]
Rutgers	Jim McElderry	Fordham	3	147–152–43 (.493)^[13]	24–29–7 (.458)	10–20–2 (.344)
Wisconsin	Neil Jones	Loyola	1	81–54–24 (.585)	0–0–0 (–)	0–0–0 (–)

Preseason

Recruiting classes

Rankings
Team	TDS	CSN	Signees
Indiana			7^[14]
Maryland			8^[15]
Michigan			8^[16]
Michigan State			9^[17]
Northwestern			6^[18]
Ohio State			6^[19]
Penn State			7^[20]
Rutgers			8^[21]
Wisconsin			9^[22]

Preseason Coaches polls

The preseason polls will be released in August 2022. Below are the results of the media poll with total points received next to each school and first-place votes in parentheses.

Predicted finish	Team	Votes (1st place)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Preseason awards

All−American Teams

	USC 1st Team	USC 2nd Team	TDS 1st Team	TDS 2nd Team	CSN 1st Team	CSN 2nd Team

Preseason All Big Ten

First Team

Second Team

All Big Ten Honorable Mention (received votes from four or more members of the media):

Indiana:
Maryland:
Michigan:
Michigan State:
Northwestern:
Ohio State:
Penn State:
Rutgers:
Wisconsin:

Rankings

National rankings

		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25
NV		No votes received

		Pre	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Final
Indiana	USC	13	21	RV	15	16	RV	NV	RV	RV	NV	RV	RV	None released				2
	TDS	8	10	11	8	16	19	18	16	18	21			24	15	8	4	2
	CSN	5
Maryland	USC	20	9	14	8	9	8	8	7	8	8	7	6	None released				17
	TDS	17	12	19	7	5	6	5	6	6	8	8	5	8	18	19	20	21
	CSN	20
Michigan	USC	NV												None released
	TDS	NV
	CSN	NV
Michigan State	USC	NV												None released
	TDS	NV
	CSN	NV
Northwestern	USC	NV												None released
	TDS	NV
	CSN	NV
Ohio State	USC	NV			22	13	11	17	15	13	13	18	16	None released
	TDS	NV			24	13	17	17	17	19	18	24	24
	CSN	NV
Penn State	USC	21	NV				20	NV						None released
	TDS	14	19	16	22	18	13	24	25
	CSN	22
Rutgers	USC	NV												None released
	TDS	NV												18
	CSN	NV
Wisconsin	USC	NV												None released
	TDS	NV
	CSN	NV

Regional rankings - USC Midwest Region

		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 10
NV		No votes received

The United Soccer Coaches' Midwest region ranks teams across the Big Ten, Horizon, and Missouri Valley Conferences.

	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12
Indiana
Maryland
Michigan
Michigan State
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers
Wisconsin

Awards and honors

Player of the week honors

Following each week's games, Big Ten conference officials select the player of the week.

Week	Player	School	Pos.
Aug. 30	Laurence Wootton	Ohio State	M
Aug. 30	William Kulvik	Maryland	D
Sep. 6	Peter Mangione	Penn State	F
Sep. 6	Keagan McLaughlin	Ohio State	GK
Sep. 13	Malcolm Johnston	Maryland	M
	Marko Borkovic	Ohio State	M
	Niklas Neumann	Maryland	GK
	Keagan McLaughlin	Ohio State	GK
Sep. 20	Xavier Green	Ohio State	M
	Jackson Temple	Rutgers	F
	Chris Rindov	Maryland	D
Sep. 27	Tyger Evans	Penn State	M
Sep. 27	Nick Richardson	Maryland	D
Oct. 4	Herbert Endeley	Indiana	F
Oct. 4	Owen Finnerty	Michigan State	GK
Oct. 11	Liam Butts	Penn State	F
Oct. 11	Nick Richardson	Maryland	D
Oct. 18	Ryan Wittenbrink	Indiana	F
Oct. 18	Carter Abbott	Wisconsin	GK
Oct. 25	MD Myers	Rutgers	F
Oct. 25	William Kulvik	Maryland	D
Nov. 1	Stefan Copetti	Maryland	F
Nov. 1	Chris Rindov	Maryland	D

Postseason honors

Unanimous selections in bold.

Award	Recipient(s)
2022 B1G Men's Soccer Individual Awards
Offensive Player of the Year	MD Myers, Rutgers
Midfielder of the Year	Laurence Wootton, Ohio State
Defensive Player of the Year	Daniel Munie, Indiana
Goalkeeper of the Year	Keagan McLaughlin, Ohio State
Coach of the Year	Sasho Cirovski, Maryland
Co-Freshman of the Year	Cole Cruthers, Rutgers
Co-Freshman of the Year	Jonathan Stout, Michigan State

First Team Honorees	Second Team Honorees	All-Freshman Team Honorees
2022 B1G Men's Soccer All-Conference Teams
Forward		Jack Wagoner, Indiana
Joshua Bolma, So., Maryland	Tommy Mihalic, So., Indiana	Luca Costabile, Maryland
Peter Mangione, Jr., Penn State	Liam Butts, Sr., Penn State	Nick Kaloukian, Michigan
MD Myers, Sr., Rutgers	Max Keenan, Jr., Wisconsin	Nolan Miller, Michigan
Midfield		Jake Spadafora, Michigan State
Ryan Wittenbrink, Sr., Indiana	Herbert Endeley, Sr., Indiana	Jonathan Stout, Michigan State
Malcolm Johnston, Sr., Maryland	Xavier Green, Sr., Ohio State	Jason Gajadhar, Northwestern
Laurence Wootton, Jr., Ohio State	Jason Bouregy, Jr., Rutgers	Tanner Creech, Ohio State
Seth Kuhn, Gr., Penn State	Tim Bielic, Sr., Wisconsin	Luciano Pechota, Ohio State
Defense		Matthew Henderson, Penn State
Daniel Munie, Sr., Indiana	Anthony Samways, So., Ohio State	Ben Liscum, Penn State
Nick Richardson, Sr., Maryland	Obafemi Awodesu, Jr., Penn State	Ian Abbey, Rutgers
Chris Rindov, Sr., Maryland	Hugo Le Guennec, Sr., Rutgers	Cole Cruthers, Rutgers
Goalkeeper		Ciran Dalton, Rutgers
Keagan McLaughlin, Sr., Ohio State	Owen Finnerty, Sr., Michigan State

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v t e 2022 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
Regular Season	America East American ASUN ACC Atlantic 10 Big East Big South Big Ten Big West Colonial Horizon Ivy MAAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Northeast Pac-12 Patriot Southern Summit Sun Belt WAC West Coast
Tournaments	America East American ASUN ACC Atlantic 10 Big East Big South Big Ten Big West Colonial Horizon MAAC Missouri Valley Northeast Patriot Southern Summit Sun Belt WAC
National Tournaments	NCAA Final
Rankings & awards	Rankings All-Americans 2023 MLS SuperDraft