Perfect no more; men's tennis attempts to regroup

Practicing after a loss is never fun for the IU men's tennis team. \nTaking the court for the first time since Monday's 7-0 defeat at Notre Dame, the Hoosiers knew Wednesday's practice was going to be no different.\nIf coach Ken Hydinger did not make an impression on his players after the match, he would surely get the message across in practice. \nHydinger, a 22-year fixture as IU coach, made his way into the Tennis Center on Wednesday wearing a navy blue hat with a gold "ND" logo stitched on the front. \n"It's either a wet jock strap or this hat," Hydinger said before leading his players out on the court. "Either one would make me feel uncomfortable. We should not be feeling comfortable today."\nAlthough the Hoosiers have two matches Saturday, the team did not intend to spend this week's practices worrying about their opponents, rather re-evaluating their own games. \n"We're going to obviously get back to work today and obviously improve on what we didn't do (Monday)," junior Mike McCarthy said Wednesday. "So find our weaknesses and kind of build on them."\nSophomore Peter Antons, just 3-2 in singles, said he has played "pretty well" through his first matches, but he has learned a lot through some of his struggles. \n"You got to learn by your mistakes," Antons said. "You just really got to continue with the process, as they say, and just fight as hard as you can, no matter what…I mean you could be playing great or bad, you just got to play hard."\nOn Saturday, IU is set to take on Marquette at 10 a.m. and Northern Illinois at 5 p.m. Marquette is 1-1 for the year, and has the nation's No. 31 doubles team. Northern Illinois is 0-2, but does have big match experience, having already faced Wisconsin and Iowa.\n"They're actually pretty good teams, stronger than (the teams in) our other doubleheaders, but not quite as strong as Notre Dame," McCarthy said. "But they're still pretty good"