LIVE BLOG: Updates As Indiana Hosts No. 19 Illinois

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Welcome to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall! Indiana tries to bounce back from its 25-point loss at Iowa as No. 19 Illinois visits in the only matchup of the season between the Hoosiers and Fighting Illini.

• Injury report: Malik Reneau and Gabe Cupps are out for the Hoosiers. Jakai Newton has been upgraded to questionable. Illinois leading scorer Kaparas Jakucionis is also questionable. Read about it here.

• Starters: Illinois starters - Kylan Boswell, Kasparas Jakucionis, Tre White, Ben Humichrous, Tomislav Ivisci.

Indiana starters: Myles Rice, Luke Goode, Trey Galloway, Mackenzie Mgbako and Oumar Ballo.

So no breaks on the injury front for the Hoosiers from the Illini.

• Crowd is pretty spread out around Assembly Hall at the moment. Students are back and its populated in the student section up to about the concourse entrances. Balcony has quite a few fans in it, but there are gaps in other areas.

• Shame that these two teams are only playing once this season. Indiana's Big Ten teams it plays twice is Purdue (duh), Ohio State and Penn State. I'm sure it's harder to set those schedules than I might think, but it just seems random who gets who in the two-plays.

• Illinois coach Brad Underwood has demonstrated that a completely rebuilt roster can be competitive straight out of the box. None of tonight's starters for the Illini played in the game against Indiana last season in Champaign. And yet? Illinois is 12-4 and right there in the top 25.

• Mike Woodson Boo Watch: Definitely the loudest boos of the season when Woodson was introduced pregame. Students being back might have something to do with that, but it was far more noticeable than in any other game this season.

• It's game time. Let's go!

• Illinois 5-4, 18:15 1H. Kasparas Jakucionis has all five points for the Illini. Indiana has buckets from Myles Rice and a late shot clock jumper made by Mackenzie Mgbako. Rice threw up a hopeful shot on a drive to the lane, recovered the airball, and called a timeout.

• Illinois 12-8, 15:56 1H. Too easy for Illinois. Illini are 5 of 7 from the field. Jakucionis is doing a really good job getting away from Indiana defenders. That's one theory. Or? Indiana defenders aren't doing a very good job of sticking to Jakucionis. He has 8 points already. Trey Galloway got caught up on a screen, freeing Jakucionis on one play.

Indiana's offense has more or less kept up. This seems to be a game headed to the 80s in scoring ... at least.

• Illinois 16-8, 1403 1H. Trey Galloway hearing it from the crowd after an air-balled 3-pointer. He also missed a mid-range jumper badly. Galloway played poorly at Iowa too, so he doesn't have the crowd's confidence right now. Some Bronx cheers when he was substituted.

• Illinois 20-8, 12:46 1H. Indiana hasn't scored in 4:22, has missed its last nine shots, and the student section is definitely getting restless. Hoosiers don't look confident in what they're running and the body language doesn't look good.

• Illinois 27-12, 10:43 1H. This is not good from the Hoosiers. The statistics tell the tale. Indiana is getting out-rebounded 15-6, the reason Illinois has an 11-2 edge in second-chance points. Also the reason Illinois has outscored Indiana 16-6 in the paint.

The statistics are bad enough, but the body language and desperation shown by Indiana on the offensive end are worse. Both Oumar Ballo and Langdon Hatton stood there after Illinois offensive rebounds and allowed Tomislav Ivisic two uncontested short-range buckets. Some of the shots being taken by the Hoosiers aren't remotely in the flow of whatever it is they're running.

Illinois drummed a good Oregon team by 32 on the road so they are not going anywhere. Indiana has a long road ahead to get back in it.

• Illinois 27-14, 9:36 1H. Double foul called on Indiana's Anthony Leal and Illinois' Ben Humrichous. Not sure what Leal did there. It appeared that Humrichous pulled Leal down as Illinois tried to transition into offense.

• Illinois 43-20, 6:59 1H. It's not getting any better for the Hoosiers ... and that's putting it mildly. Illinois is shooting 57.1% and 50% from 3-point range. Illinois is 7 of 14 from long range. Illinois already has eight offensive rebounds. Kasparas Jakucionis has 14 points already and Tomislav Ivisic has 12 points.

Indiana's offense? I don't even know how to describe it. I used desperate earlier in the blog and that description hasn't changed. The Hoosiers look completely shell-shocked out there on both ends of the floor. Where is the leadership to stem the tide going to come from? I fear the answer is that it's not going to come at all.

• Salt in the wounds. Luke Goode called for a flagrant foul after the media timeout. Meanwhile, the students around me have started a "Fire Woodson" chant.

• Illinois 50-22, 5:01 1H. In one Keystone Kops routine, the ball pinballed around the Illinois offensive end after it slipped out of the hands of an Illini defender. Several Indiana players had a chance to secure it, none did, and Illinois ends up with an easy layup. Hoosiers' defensive will is almost nonexistent.

• lllinois 52-24, 3:54 1H. Embarrassing. There's really one word for this performance from the Hoosiers. They look completely unprepared and the Illini are not the team that's going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Coming off of a 25-point loss with the chance to play on their home court with the students back and with plenty still to play for this season? This is an immensely disappointing performance.

• The halftime (and postgame) reaction might be the story of this game. The crowd is definitely restless and who can blame them?

• Illinois 55-30, 1:40 1H. Indiana down by the same margin (25) they lost to at Iowa on Saturday. Hoosiers wasted no time circling the drain.

• Illinois 55-32, 1:21 1H. Good news for Indiana ... Illinois has missed its last seven shots. Bad news for Indiana ... they're still down by 23.

• Illinois 60-32, :44.6 1H. Students are beginning to bolt and it's not halftime yet.

• Halftime: Indiana 60, Illinois 32. Boos are loud at Assembly Hall as Indiana exits the floor after one of the worst halves of basketball this building has ever seen from the home team. Fans are bolting for the exits ... especially the students.

• The stats ... if you dare. Illinois shot 48.8% and still scored 60 points. Illini were 8 of 19 from 3-point range which didn't hurt. Illinois has a 29-18 edge in rebounds, but it led to 17 second-chance points.

Kasparas Jakucionis has 19 points for the Illini. Even the live stats is messed up as it says he played 22 minutes, but that's the least of the worries at the moment. Tomislav Ivisic has been just as dominant with 15 points. He's controlled the paint and the glass.

For Indiana, Oumar Ballo has 10 points, Myles Rice has 8 points and no one else has more than 4 points. The veterans I wrote about in the How To Watch story? Ballo has 10 points, but Trey Galloway, Luke Goode and Anthony Leal are a combined 2 of 7 from the field for 8 points. To be fair to Leal, he hasn't attempted a shot, but there has been no safe harbor for the Hoosiers from any one player tonight.

• The mood at Assembly Hall right now is one of shock. Not surprise, but shock that an Indiana team could be so poor on its home floor. The students directly in front of my position in the corner of Assembly Hall have all bailed out. Non-student fans are just kind of sitting there pondering that nightmare first half.

• Illinois 60-36, 18:19 2H. There's a review ongoing. The only way the Hoosiers can logically chop this half up is to treat each media timeout gap as a chance to chip away. After trailing by 28 at halftime, Indiana has to cut its deficit by six at each MTO down to the final 4-minute stoppage to have a ghost of a chance. A technical foul by Tre White helps Indiana's cause to "win" their way to their first MTO stoppage.

• Illinois 60-42, 17:38 2H. Hey, Indiana has already cut 10 points off their deficit and the fans are getting behind the Hoosiers. Fans WANT this team to do well. No Indiana fan wants to watch the Hoosiers struggle as they did in the first half.

• Illinois 64-42, 15:23 2H. Well, Indiana cut six points off the deficit at the first media timeout. Problem is? It could (should) have been more. After the Illinois lead was cut to 18, Hoosiers missed some open shots and turned it over. Right now, Illinois fans have to be the ones fuming. Illinois playing like they had this one in the bag. Illini have only made 2 of 10 from the field in the second half and have already been called for six fouls.

• Illinois 69-48, 11:50 1H. Hoosiers were on-pace for a bit to shave another six points off the deficit, but a couple of shots by Trey Galloway and Mackenzie Mgbako didn't fall and Illinois answered with buckets by Ben Humrichous and Dre Gibbs-Lawhorn to take the Illinois lead back up to 21.

Ballo was part of the low energy problem early, but he's at least trying to get something done. He has 14 points and 13 rebounds and has only missed one of his seven shots. Can't really say this game has been a credit to anyone else on the Indiana roster. Myles Rice has 12 points and three rebounds, but no one else has brought anything to the table that comes close to good enough.

• Illinois 75-51, 9:14 2H. Indiana is 0-for-13 from 3-point range. The tale of the tape: Trey Galloway 0-for-5, Luke Goode 0-for-3, Mackenzie Mgbako 0-for-2, Kanaan Carlyle 0-for-2, Anthony Leal 0-for-1.

Think of this, though. If Indiana was at 50% (or over 50% in this case at 7 of 13), they'd still be trailing. Albeit, in a close game, but you get the drift. This meltdown has many culprits. Shooting just one part of it.

• Illinois 79-51, 7:34 2H. This game feels like a turning point. It's just unacceptable to be run off your home floor in the manner Indiana has. Yes, there's a lot of Big Ten games left, but this is a hard one to blow off as just one bad night. This feels like something that is going to be very hard to isolate to two straight bad games.

Whether the players aren't giving the proper effort or preparing properly or whether the coaching staff isn't preparing them correctly is moot in the sense that the result screams loud and clear that there is a system failure going on with the Hoosiers.

• Illinois 81-53, 6:36 2H. Jakai Newton in the game for the Hoosiers. Not good circumstances, but good to see him out there playing.

• Illinois 83-56, 5:42 2H. Sarcastic cheers from the crowd as Trey Galloway ends Indiana's 3-point drought with a make. Hoosiers are 1 of 14 from long range.

• Illinois 90-61, 3:46 2H. The mission is to avoid having Illinois put up a 100-spot. Indiana is checking Myles Rice in after the final media timeout. Not sure why. Might as well play the walk-ons and give the fans their first Dallas James experience. It would be the height of bad judgment to allow an important player to get hurt in a 29-point blowout.

• Illinois 90-61, 2:24 2H. And for the cherry on this distasteful sundae, we have a confrontation between Tomislav Ivisic and Luke Goode. On a missed shot by Illinois, Goode came in unncessarily hard on Ivisic.

A limping Ivisic let Goode know he didn't appreciate it and they began to jaw at each other. In the sideline conflagration, Oumar Ballo shoved Ivisic down. Ballo was way late to the party and he is looking at punishment for that. Complete loss of composure can be added to the list of Indiana sins in this game.

• Illinois 90-61, 2:24 2H. Ballo has been ejected. A flagrant two foul. Fans cheer him as he walked off the floor, but they haven't seen the replays I've seen. Completely deserves it.

• FINAL: Illinois 94, Indiana 69. I think it's fair to say that this is the nadir of the Mike Woodson era at Indiana and one of the worst games any Indiana team has ever played at Assembly Hall. Everything about it left a bad taste in the mouth.

Mike Woodson and Brad Underwood did exchange a handshake after the game, but both teams steered clear of one another otherwise.

Indiana falls to 13-5 and 4-3 in the Big Ten. Another short turnaround beckons as the Hoosiers travel to Ohio State on Friday night in front of a national TV audience.

• Some stats. Oumar Ballo led Indiana with 16 points and 15 rebounds before he was ejected. Luke Goode had 13 points.

Indiana was outscored 19-6 on second chance points. The Hoosiers were outrebounded 51-37. Indiana was 4 of 18 from 3-point range, but the Hoosiers missed their first 13 attempts.

The shooting percentages were actually close, 40-38 in Illinois favor, but the Illini shot 28.1% in the second half. Kylan Boswell ended up leading Illinois with 22 points. Kasparas Jakucionis had 21 points, 19 of them scored in the 60-point first half for the Illini.

• Late update. Mike Woodson did not do his postgame radio interview. We are waiting in the media room for his usual postgame press conference.

• Mike Woodson did do his usual press conference with the media.

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