EAST LANSING, Mich. — Saturday night officers lined the streets of campus preparing for students to hit the streets after the game.
Come Sunday, it's the calm after the storm, leaving the streets mostly empty.
"It quiet, I don't know if everybody is just sleeping or what's going on but we're having a good time out here playing some Kan-Jam and Spike-Ball," MSU student Marino Merlini said.
But this wasn't the case after the game the night before.
"So last night we came out and we had the music playing pretty loud and there were like 60 Storm Troopers here set up, the had the helicopters going and everything," Merlini added.
According to the East Lansing Police Department, 23 people were arrested during last night's post-game activities. At one point, there was a crowd of 1,500 people on Grand River Avenue tearing down street signs and throwing glass bottles into the air.
"They started chanting 'go green, go white' and they started arresting people," Merlini said.
"Yeah there was a lot of chaos, somebody broke our garage window," MSU student Jack Johnson said.
ELPD says that there were also 10 fires in addition to two damaged street signs and a damaged police van. Students said that although crowd got a little crazy at times after the loss, they think it would have been even crazier if the Spartans would have beaten Texas Tech.
"If MSU had won... I'm pretty sure East Lansing would have burned to the ground," MSU student Christian Kotila said.
"I would say that last night was worse than Duke in the sense that there was a lot more partying and a lot more destructive behavior, but if we won...I can't even--I don't know. I've never seen it," Merlini said.
When it comes to the arrests, police says 22 of them were misdemeanors, and one was a felony.
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