Following the deadly mass shooting on the Michigan State campus Monday night, the university announced that no activities, including athletics, will be held on campus until the end of Wednesday. The Spartans men’s basketball team was scheduled to resume Big Ten play in East Lansing against Minnesota on Wednesday, but the game will not take place at this time.
MSU Interim Deputy Chief Chris Rozman said Monday night that the 48-hour cancellation deadline could change. except Tom Izzo’s team playing at home, the only other on-campus sporting event scheduled for that two-day span was the Michigan State men’s tennis team hosting Drake on Wednesday night. The Spartans women’s basketball team still has a road game against Purdue on the schedule Wednesday night. There are no changes in that contest against the Boilermakers.
Three people were killed in the shooting, and at least five were wounded during the incident. Rozman said that there were “several life-threatening injuries”, and that five were wounded in critical condition. The identities of the dead have not been made public, nor has the motive of the attacker, whom Rozman said took his own life after committing heinous acts, been stated. The next scheduled athletic event for Michigan State to take place on campus is its women’s tennis team, which will face Marshall on Friday.