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Over the weekend, the hockey team that represents Creighton University got absolutely manhandled after heading to Tulsa for a couple of games against Oklahoma State. The school also has a club hockey team that’s experienced a bit more success this season, and it’s making sure people know they’re not the ones who got blown out.
Creighton currently boasts 14 varsity teams (six men’s and eight women’s) that compete at the Division I level as a member of the Big East. However, the school also sponsors three “Premier Club Sports” that aren’t sanctioned by the NCAA but give students the chance to play golf, ice hockey, and lacrosse at a relatively competitive level.
However, “competitive” is the last word that can be used to describe what happened when the men’s hockey team, which is a member of the ACHA’s DII level, played back-to-back road games against Oklahoma State last weekend before heading back home after being collectively outscored 45-7 in those two contests.
Creighton is also home to a club hockey team that has no affiliation with that program, and it went out of its way to clarify they are two totally separate entities following the bloodbath.
The club hockey team at Creighton updated its Instagram bio to distance itself from the ACHA team that got blown out by Oklahoma State
The Bluejays team that traveled to Tulsa last weekend was handed a 25-0 loss by Oklahoma State on Saturday in a game where five Cowboys recorded a hat trick, and they didn’t fare much better in a rematch on Sunday where the home team earned a 20-7 victory.
The school’s website described them as a “young” team that nonetheless “showed some fight” while entering the spin zone in the wake of the beatdown, and while I can’t find the exact year they were established, they appear to be relative newcomers compared to the club hockey team at Creighton that has a history stretching back to 2004.
That squad is an ACHA member that competes at the DIII level and was not in action last weekend—a fact one player noted after someone jumped into their Instagram comments to drag them over the underwhelming play of the other hockey team at Creighton.
It appears that unwarranted chirp was enough to motivate someone on the team to update their bio on Instagram, which now reads “We are not the team that played Oklahoma State.”
The team, which has gone 4-3 this season, was also responsible for a lopsided win of its own with w 17-0 thrashing of Lewis University in September, and it’s easy to understand why they don’t want to be associated with the other team when you consider their worst losses of the year were 7-1 tilts against Mankato State and Kansas.