BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Brad Underwood was, if anything, curious about how his team would look at Indiana on Tuesday night fresh after a disheartening loss to USC and as it tried to work in Kasparas Jakucionis after a two-game absence.

That curiosity lasted all of about 15 minutes of real-time. No. 19 Illinois blitzed Indiana out of the gates on Tuesday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Jakucionis looked every bit like the lottery pick he’s projected to be in six months, scoring eight of the first 10 points and assisting on the other made field goal, rattled off a 10-0 run and by the time 15:10 went by the lead ballooned to 30 points.

Indiana fans were in a full-throated “fire Woodson” chant before halftime. Some hit the doors early to miss Illinois’ 94-69 win over the Hoosiers, the program’s largest margin of victory over Indiana at Assembly Hall.

Not a bad way for Underwood’s team — fully healthy, it should be stated — to bounce back after a disappointing loss on Saturday to USC.

“I was curious,” Underwood said. “This is a hard place to play. You’ve got a team that was coming off not one of their better performances at Carver-Hawkeye and had won five in a row prior to that. I was excited to see. I didn’t know. There’s a little apprehension. You don’t know if you’re going to have KJ or not. It was good when your best player and a guy who is the quarterback of your team is back, but we still didn’t know and a little apprehension as to how he’d perform because he had missed a couple.”