Ann Arbor − Crisler Center has never looked like this.
It turned green.
There was a big-time basketball game being played Saturday night, with significant implications for Michigan and Michigan State's postseason hopes, but that wasn't the biggest story.
Not even close.
Wolverines and Spartans fans came together like perhaps they never have before, five days after a shooting on Michigan State's campus in East Lansing killed three students and critically injured five others.
Before tipoff, during a moment of silence for the Michigan State victims, Michigan officials turned the arena green, and it stayed that way as the Michigan Band played "Shadows," the Michigan State alma mater.