2022 Creighton Bluejays men's soccer team

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2022 Creighton Bluejays men's soccer
Creighton Bluejays wordmark.svg
NCAA tournament, College Cup
Conference Big East Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 9
TopDrawerSoccer.comNo. 4
Record13–4–6 (3–3–4 Big East)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Ian Sarachan (4th season)
  • Michael Gabb (7th season)
  • Mitch Kavanagh (4th season)
Home stadium Morrison Stadium
Seasons
  2021
2023  
2022 Big East Conference men's soccer standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 20 Georgetown+ 8 1 112 6 3
Seton Hall+ 4 1 57 4 7
Xavier 3 1 69 2 7
Butler 4 3 310 6 3
Providence 3 2 55 5 7
No. 9 Creighton3 3 413 5 6
UConn 3 4 37 7 3
St. John's 2 4 44 8 5
DePaul 1 4 54 6 7
Villanova 2 6 26 8 3
Marquette 1 5 45 9 4
As of December 13, 2022
Rankings from United Soccer Coaches
Source: Big East

The 2022 season was the 44th season of Creighton University fielding a men's varsity soccer team. It was the program's 10th season in the Big East Conference, and their fifth season with Johnny Torres as the head coach of the program. Creighton played their home matches at Morrison Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Creighton finished the regular season 6–4–6 before going on a seven-match winning-streak that involved winning their first Big East Conference men's soccer tournament ever, and their first soccer conference tournament championship since winning the Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer tournament in 2012. It also the first season since 2012 that the Bluejays reached the College Cup of the NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament, being unseeded and defeated three seeded programs en route to the College Cup. There, they were eliminated by Syracuse University, losing the game 2–3.

Duncan McGuire lead the entire NCAA in goals scored during the 2022 season, scoring 22 goals.

Background

Roster

Squad

As of December 4, 2022 [1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of Germany.svg  GER Paul Kruse
2 DF Flag of Costa Rica.svg  CRC Fabian Álvarez
3 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Luke Mitchell
4 DF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Mitch Dobson
5 DF Flag of Portugal.svg  POR Miguel Ventura
6 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Landon Sloan
7 DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Malte Kaiser
8 MF Flag of Haiti.svg  HAI Charles Auguste
9 FW Flag of England.svg  ENG Alfie Pope
10 MF Flag of Chile.svg  CHI Diego Dutilh
11 MF Flag of Brazil.svg  BRA Guilherme Viserta
12 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Dominic Briggs
13 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Duncan McGuire
14 MF Flag of England.svg  ENG Callum Watson
15 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ben Foulks
16 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Jackson Castro
No.Pos.NationPlayer
17 MF Flag of Denmark.svg  DEN Alejandro Maillet
18 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Owen O'Malley
19 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Sean Green
20 DF Flag of England.svg  ENG Liam Gilligan
21 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Marcos Pessanha
22 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Cameron Briggs
23 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Mark O'Neill
24 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Nathan Schnur
25 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Jake Ashford
26 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Owen Nelson
27 MF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Giorgio Probo
28 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Luke Waters
29 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ryan Brakke
30 GK Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Patrick Millard
33 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Andrew Karcher

Coaching staff

2022 Creighton Bluejays men's soccer coaching staff
NamePositionSeasons at
Creighton
Alma Mater
Johnny Torres Head Coach5 Creighton University (1997)
Ian SarachanAssistant Coach4 University of Illinois Chicago (2010)
Michael GabbAssistant Coach7Creighton University (2002)
Mitch KavanaghAssistant Coach4 Bellevue University (2015)

Schedule

Date
Time, TV
Rank#Opponent#ResultRecordSite (Attendance)
City, State
Preseason
August 12*
6:30 pm
Drake W  5–2  
Morrison Stadium
Omaha, NE
August 16*
12:00 pm
Bradley W  4–1  
Morrison Stadium
Omaha, NE
August 19*
6:30 pm
Denver W  2–0  
Morrison Stadium
Omaha, NE
Non-conference regular season
August 25*
6:30 pm,  Flosports
Oakland W  6–0  1–0–0
Morrison Stadium (896)
Omaha, NE
August 28*
6:30 pm, Flosports
Rutgers W  6–1  2–0–0
Morrison Stadium (1,615)
Omaha, NE
September 2*
6:30 pm, Flosports
No. 7No. 10  Saint Louis L  2–3  2–1–0
Morrison Stadium (1,413)
Omaha, NE
September 5*
6:30 pm, Flosports
No. 7 San Diego State T  2–2  2–1–1
Morrison Stadium (1,178)
Omaha, NE
September 9*
7:30 pm, Flosports
No. 2  Stanford
Socctoberfest
T  1–1  2–1–2
Morrison Stadium (4,196)
Omaha, NE
September 14*
7:00 pm
at  Omaha
Dodge Street Derby
W  6–1  3–1–2
Al F. Caniglia Field (1,996)
Omaha, NE
Big East regular season
September 18
6:30 pm,  BEDN
UConn T  1–1  3–1–3
(0–0–1)
Morrison Stadium (2,629)
Omaha, NE
September 24
12:00 pm, BEDN
at No. 25  Georgetown L  1–2  3–2–3
(0–1–1)
Shaw Field (887)
Washington, DC
October 1
6:30 pm, BEDN
Villanova W  3–1  4–2–3
(1–1–1)
Morrison Stadium (1,562)
Omaha, NE
October 8
6:30 pm, BEDN
St. John's T  1–1  4–2–4
(1–1–2)
Morrison Stadium (1,283)
Omaha, NE
October 12
6:00 pm, BEDN
at  Xavier L  1–3  4–3–4
(1–2–2)
Corcoran Field (519)
Cincinnati, OH
October 15
2:00 pm, BEDN
at  Seton Hall T  1–1  4–3–5
(1–2–3)
Morrison Stadium (949)
Omaha, NE
October 19
2:00 pm, BEDN
Butler W  4–2  5–3–5
(2–2–3)
Morrison Stadium (1,083)
Omaha, NE
October 22
7:00 pm, BEDN
at  Marquette T  2–2  5–3–6
(2–2–4)
Valley Fields (256)
Milwaukee, WI
October 29
6:30 pm, BEDN
DePaul W  3–0  6–3–6
(3–2–4)
Morrison Stadium (935)
Omaha, NE
November 2
6:00 pm, BEDN
at  Providence L  2–4  6–4–6
(3–3–4)
Anderson Stadium (893)
Providence, RI
Big East tournament
November 5
6:00 pm, BEDN
(6)at (3) Xavier
Quarterfinals
W  2–1  7–4–6
Corcoran Field (467)
Cincinnati, OH
November 10
3:00 pm, Flosports
(6)vs. (2) Seton Hall
Semifinals
W  6–0  8–4–6
Maryland SoccerPlex (247)
Boyds, MD
November 13
11:30 am,  FS1
(6)vs. (1) No. 14 Georgetown
Final
W  3–0  9–4–6
Maryland SoccerPlex (1,147)
Boyds, MD
NCAA tournament
November 17
11:30 am,  ESPN+
No. 23  Missouri State
First round
W  2–1  10–4–6
Morrison Stadium (1,054)
Omaha, NE
November 20
7:00 pm, ESPN+
at (2) No. 1  Washington
Second round
W  3–1  11–4–6
Husky Soccer Stadium (2,261)
Seattle, WA
November 26
6:00 pm, ESPN+
at (15) No. 17  Tulsa
Third round
W  2–1  12–4–6
Hurricane Soccer & Track Stadium (540)
Tulsa, OK
December 3
6:00 pm,  ACCNX
at (7) No. 4  Duke
Quarterfinals
W  3–2  13–4–6
Hurricane Soccer & Track Stadium (1,061)
Durham, NC
December 9
5:00 pm,  ESPNU
vs. (3) No. 3  Syracuse
College Cup Semifinal
L  2–3  13–5–6
WakeMed Soccer Park (10,286)
Cary, NC
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from United Soccer Coaches. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
All times are in Central Time [2] .

Rankings

Ranking movements
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United Soccer National [3] RV7RVRVNot released9
United Soccer East Region [4] 315857810910Not released
TopDrawer Soccer [5] RVRV17994
CollegeSoccerNews.com [6] 2522302724RVRVRVRV17Not released

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