ONLINE ONLY:Hoosiers ready to begin spring season

After a three-week winter vacation, the men's tennis team has to shake off the rust.\nTwo months removed from the fall portion of their schedule, they will return to action at home Monday with dual matches against Morehead State and IPFW. \n"I'm really excited for the season to start now," junior Dara McLoughlin said. "I've been waiting for it since the start of the fall. I think it's the best part of the season and I can't wait to get it going."\nIn the first ever meeting between the schools, the Hoosiers will host Morehead State at 10 a.m. before taking on IPFW at 4 p.m. \n"IPFW we saw last year," said IU coach Ken Hydinger. "(IPFW coach Eric Burns) has got some talent in there. They were young last year; they'll be a little bit better this year."\nAfter defeating IPFW 7-0 last season, Hoosiers players said they will not be intimidated by the youthful Mastodons. Morehead State's 2006 record of 8-15 is not posing much of a threat to IU, ranked 58th in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.\n"Morehead, I don't know much about them," Hydinger said. "I haven't seen them in years. The coach in there is a good guy that played at Purdue and he's working hard. I've seen Morehead teams have some talent, but I don't know where they are."\nAfter the completion of the fall season, senior David Bubenicek, No. 48 in the ITA's Fila Collegiate Tennis rankings, and McLoughlin appeared to be the front-runners for the first and second singles positions, respectively. Nevertheless, Hydinger indicated that no lineup has been set, in part because of some fresh faces. \n"We have three new players that came in this semester, and one of them is Thomas Richter (a transfer from Birmingham Southern), who is going to be in contention for one of those spots," he said. "So when we say we don't know the lineup, we don't know it."\nWhile IU has reached the NCAA Tournament four times in the previous 10 seasons, Hydinger has not guided a team there since 2001. Bubenicek, among others, does think that his team is capable of making a run to the postseason.\n"I want to go for (the) NCAA Tournament (this season)," Bubenicek said, "and I think our team is good enough to make it"