Oumar Ballo flexed his biceps, shrugged his shoulders and bumped his chest with senior forward Luke Goode — while putting perhaps the final dagger in USC’s hopes of pulling a road upset.

The Trojans take an early 10-point lead, but the former Arizona standout powers his way to 23 points as the Hoosiers prevail, 82-69, and drop the Trojans to 1-3 in Big Ten play.

A late-game fracas in the Illinois vs. Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball game led to the ejection of Indiana's Oumar Ballo.

Myles Rice came in to defend Goode with a shove and a few words as the action spilled onto the baseline. IU's Oumar Ballo ran in from the top of the key and gave Ivisic a one-handed shove, sending him toppling over a photographer.

As Illinois dominated Indiana in every facet en route to a 94-69 win, the Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall crowd expressed its displeasure with coach Mike Woodson.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Oumar Ballo powered his way to 23 points and Indiana overcame an early double-digit deficit to beat USC 82-69 Wednesday. The Hoosiers (13-3) earned their fourth win in five Big Ten Conference games, the program’s best start since the 2015-16 season.

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana basketball's hot streak continued with a 82-69 ... Indiana got a game-high 23 points from Oumar Ballo and Myles Rice had 19 points with nine rebounds and six assists. After a quiet first half, Trey Galloway put IU on his shoulders.

Kylan Boswell scored 22 points, Kasparas Jakucionis added 21 and No. 19 Illinois opened a 28-point halftime lead in a 94-69 blowout of Indiana.

Oumar Ballo powered his way to 23 points and Indiana overcame an early double-digit deficit to beat USC 82-69 Wednesday.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana men’s basketball faces Northwestern at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday. As Hoosiers On SI wrote on Monday, Woodson will try again for his first win against the Wildcats.

There is A Lot of noise around the Indiana men’s basketball program right now. Questions about the program will be addressed and answered in the coming months, but one looms large right now regardless of the outcome.

Indiana’s inconsistency continued. They won a thrilling road game against Ohio State after being dominated at home by Illinois earlier in the week. Meanwhile, the women won a massive game in Iowa City before falling to the Illini at Assembly Hall.