Then again, sandwiching a 10-point home loss to an average Big Ten opponent between 25-point-plus massacres of conference foes – Penn State and Indiana – is taking up-and-down to an extreme. By now, we know what the No.

Now Indiana has A MESS that didn’t need to happen and is deteriorating toward toxic status. It will require an industrial strength clean up on aisles one (the basketball court), two (the recruiting world) and three (the perturbed paying customers).

Indiana basketball suffered one of the most lopsided home losses in program history on Tuesday night to Illinois: