After some of the most difficult days imaginable for the MSU community, athletic events are beginning again, with men’s basketball making the 65 mile trip to Ann Arbor to take on Michigan on Saturday evening. In what has been a charged, nasty, and toxic rivalry across multiple sports, this meeting is something that obviously feels wildly different. Monday night’s shooting that left three MSU students dead and five more seriously wounded and the hours of chaos that followed before the perpetrator was found have rendered the leadup to Saturday night’s game more than a little toothless.
Michigan, to their credit, has prepared a series of tributes, most notably the Michigan pep band playing MSU Shadows
From the University of Michigan, here are some of the plans for Saturday’s game vs.