Tom Crean points out areas of concern for the Indiana Hoosiers, who are trying to bounce back from consecutive 25-point losses.

Indiana’s two consecutive 25-point losses appear to make NCAA Tournament talk a bit far-fetched, but the Hoosiers have time to repair the damage.

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 hosts No. 20 Illinois on Tuesday night at Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers have won 10 of the last 16 matchups in the series and eight of the last 10 contests at home. They are looking to rebound from a disappointing loss to Iowa that ended their five-game win streak.

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.