“We’re bringing back our old style of basketball a little bit,” senior guard Travis Walton said. “We’re playing hard, and every time we touch the floor, we’re going to play tough.”

Using a familiar formula of success, the No. 8 Spartans ran Kansas up, down and off the court Saturday, cruising to a 75-62 victory in front of a riled up Izzone at Breslin Center.

The Spartans held the Jayhawks to their second-worst offensive game of the season and pounded them mercilessly on the glass, 42-31. If Kansas hadn’t been rewarded 28 free throw attempts in the second half, the outcome could have been much more decisive.

“I think we didn’t play well today and give Michigan State credit,” Kansas head coach Bill Self said. “I thought the crowd was good in the first half, but I think we played about to the level that I thought we would play to. I didn’t think we’d be great by conference play starting. I still think we can have a really good season, a really good year.”

Kalin Lucas led MSU with 22 points and Raymar Morgan finished with 13 and eight boards for the Spartans, who have now won nine consecutive games and 27 straight at Breslin Center.

Sherron Collins finished with a game-high 25 points — including 20 in the second half — for Kansas while senior Cole Aldrich added 14 points and 11 rebounds.

“We definitely needed this win to just keep our confidence up and keep this going,” said Morgan, who finished short of his fourth straight double-double. “Now, I feel like we’re rolling.”

Kansas opened the game on a 7-1 run, but Lucas single-handedly willed his team back into the game. The sophomore guard scored eight straight points for the Spartans, including a pair of 3-pointers, to reduce Kansas’ lead to 11-9 after the first media timeout.

After Delvon Roe’s lefty hook shot gave MSU its first lead of the game, Kansas went on a scoring drought of monumental proportions. The Jayhawks went seven minutes without a point and more than 10 minutes without a field goal, as MSU pushed its lead to 13 with 6:33 left in the half.

When Collins left the game with a minor injury midway through the half, matters only got worse for the Jayhawks. They went from missing shots to barely being able to attempt them, as they finished with 12 first half turnovers.

“Everybody was just holding everybody accountable and everybody was just determined not to let them get a big run going and get back in the game,” senior forward Marquise Gray said. “We’ve watched film on them, and they’ve been down by 20 before and come back, so we were determined not to let that happen.”

While Kansas kept searching for the bottom of the basket, MSU continued to pad its lead. Walton (13 points) hit a couple jumpers, Korie Lucious (five points) nailed a 3-pointer, and Morgan bounced back from a forgettable start to score eight points during the latter part of the half, as MSU went up by as many as 21 points.

Aldrich finally snapped Kansas’ funk with layups on consecutive possessions, but any momentum Kansas had developed quickly evaporated when MSU went on yet another scoring run to end the half.

At intermission, MSU had more than doubled up Kansas 37-18.

“I thought that was as good a first half of basketball as we’ve played in a while,” MSU head coach Tom Izzo said. “After Kansas started out really well … they went a long time without scoring a lot of points and I credit that to good defense on our part.”

After a scoreless first half, senior center Goran Suton opened the second period with a jumper for MSU, but Collins scored seven points over the next three minutes to spur Kansas on a 9-0 scoring run that sliced MSU’s lead to 12.

But Suton, who was battling a virus, answered with another jumper and Walton canned a pair of tough shots in the lane to extend MSU’s lead back to 18.

Tyrel Reed (10 points) gave Kansas a pulse late with a pair of contested 3-pointers and a breakaway layup that cut MSU’s lead to single digits for the first time in the half, but sophomore guard Chris Allen (six points) put the nail in the coffin with a late 3-pointer.

MSU will resume Big Ten play Wednesday at Penn State. Tip-off is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.