“I believe (the protest) was effective because you see the people that was around us who were counteracting what we were doing," sociology freshman and protester Dominique McCormick said.

While Izzo was speaking to the crowd at the campout about the upcoming basketball season, the protesters — who stood at the front of the stage, arms locked and wearing all black — spoke up over Izzo with chants of, "Why don't you support the Movement for Black Lives?"

As player introductions are happening. "Why don't you support the movement for black lives?" @thesnews pic.twitter.com/WfXPomBpyN

— Marie Weidmayer (@mweidmayer) October 22, 2016

Part of the problem is that people don't understand the Movement for Black Lives, McCormick said.

"We have people dying out here on the streets and then you have ... a basketball team that’s made up of over 60 percent black athletes and you don’t feel accountable for those actions,” McCormick said.

There was no police presence at the Izzone campout until the protesters arrived.

“I think that one of the notable things, the police showed up right after we came here — as if we were a threat from the beginning," interdisciplinary studies in the social sciences junior and protester Salman Pervez said. "Minutes after we arrived the police came.”

Pervez said he believes people in positions of power need to take a stand.

“The biggest thing with Tom Izzo and notable people like him is that people in positions of power should ... have some moral convictions about what is going on in the world," Pervez said.