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Michigan State basketball prepared for Duke's Cameron without the Crazies

It didn’t take much for Malik Hall to adjust to playing in a near-empty Breslin Center.

The sophomore forward likened Michigan State basketball’s first two games in front of cardboard cutouts and a smattering of staff members, TV camera operators and media members to his time playing at Sunrise Christian Academy prep school in Kansas.

“We were very small school, so we never really had a lot of fans,” Hall said Monday. “At most we probably had like 40 people for our games, and the road games were just about the same, maybe even less.