The MSU men’s basketball team outhustled, outshot, out-alley-ooped and outplayed Northern Michigan en route to a 118-57 blowout victory in its first exhibition game of the season.

“We kept trying to say, ‘Let’s be more aggressive on both ends and let’s be more consistent,’” MSU head coach Tom Izzo said. “Those were our battle cries for tonight.”

And just about everything that could have gone wrong for the team’s opposition did as well.

30 turnovers, 29 personal fouls and then the loss of someone quite valuable to a basketball team — their head coach. With just 13.6 seconds remaining in the first half, Northern Michigan’s (0-1 overall) head coach Dean Ellis was tossed from the contest arguing a charging call.

It wasn’t all Northern Michigan’s errors, but the No. 6 Spartans’ (1-0) balanced scoring and superb shooting that aided MSU’s one-sided pounding, as they finished the game on a 30-4 run and shot 56.5 percent, as well as 61.5 percent from behind the 3-point arc.

“They’ve got some depth and their speed is just incredible,” Ellis said. “That’s the way he wants to play. They’re awful good, it’s going to be fun watching these guys. I thought they’d press us and he was smart enough to use it.”

Sophomore guard Durrell Summers led the way for MSU, scoring a career-high 30 points on 11-for-14 shooting. Junior forward Raymar Morgan and sophomore guard Kalin Lucas each chipped away at the scoring block as well, banging in 19 and 16 points, respectively.

“It feels real good (to go out there and show everybody what I’m made of),” Summers said. “As a team, we took a step forward and I think everybody else kind of fed off each other. I tried to do what I could, I had the hot hand so I was just staying composed and taking open shots. I just happened to have a good night.”

14 different Spartans posted a number in the scoring column as they not only outshot the Wildcats (56.5 percent to 34.9 percent), but outrebounded Northern Michigan 49-29 and racked up 18 more assists as well.

Izzo said he was pleased with Lucas’ ability to run the team and Morgan’s desire to bang down low and get to the free-throw line, which he did, going 9-for-14 from the charity stripe, with the entire team shooting 40-57.

“I did love it today, I think guys out there are following me,” Lucas said. “I made sure to go out, have fun and direct. And that’s what I did for us offensively and on the defensive end.”

The Spartans swarmed the Wildcats as soon as the jump ball was up in the air, throwing a pressuring full-court defense the entire game and jumping out to a 22-4 lead before Northern Michigan could even string together two field goals in a row.

With the style MSU played, Northern Michigan played in a tizzy and out of place, constantly hacking the Spartans to put them in the bonus just 4:30 into the game.

MSU shot 61.3 percent, going 5-for-8 from 3-point land in the first 20 minutes. Although the Wildcats hacked the Spartans for 35 first-half free throws, the Green and White missed 10 of them (71.4 percent) — an area Izzo despises being weak from.

17 seemed to be the Wildcats’ unlucky number as they committed 17 personal fouls and coughed up the ball the same number of times in the first half — not to mention shooting an icy 44.4 percent from the floor and 57.1 from the free-throw line.

In a four-minute stretch starting at the 5:31 mark, Summers banged in 13 of MSU’s 15 points with two free throws, a jumper and three consecutive 3-pointers from well behind the arc.

“I think he’ll play a role, a big role, because he can defend, he can offensive rebound, has improved his shooting, gotten better with the ball,” Izzo said. “He’s a guy that’s definitely made some strides. We just have to keep him injury-free. I’m expecting some big things from him, real big.”

The Spartans host Lake Superior State at 7 p.m. on Monday at Breslin Center, their second and final exhibition game.