European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                College basketball aggie cajuns by the associated press every underdog has his Day and that came on the second Day of the Mcaa tournament. In addition to 14th-seeded East Tennessee states upset of Arizona loth seeded Tulane the 12th-seeded new Mexico state aggie and the 13th-seeded southwestern Louisiana raging cajuns pulled off big upsets in first round games Friday. On the opening Day of the tournament thursday the Only upsets were mild ones by two no. 9 seeds. Fridays surprises came in the West and Southeast regional. In the West new Mexico state eliminated fifth seeded Depaul 81-73 and southwestern Louisiana downed no. 4 Oklahoma 87-83. In the Southeast Tulane beat seventh seeded St. Johns 61-57 and East Tennessee state stunned no. 3 Arizona 87-80 Sec Page 28. In the East Kentucky beat old Dominion 88-69, Massachusetts overpowered Fordham 85-58,off upsets Caa men Syracuse Defeated Princeton 51-43 and Iowa state edged North Carolina Charlotte 76-74. Kansas clobbered Howard 100-67, Cincinnati dumped Delaware 85-47, Michigan state beat Southwest Missouri state 61-54 and Texas i paso ousted Evansville 55-50 in the Midwest. Urcla beat Robert Morris 73-53 and Louisville downed Wake Forest 81-58 in the  Massachusetts 85, Fordham 58 the minutemen used a balanced attack and runs of 20-6 and 19-3 to rout Fordham. Massachusetts 29-4 stretched its winning Streak to 13 games. Massachusetts had five scorers in double figures including Louis Roe with a career High 19,Syracuse 51, Princeton 43 Syracuse freshman Lawrence Moten scored 23 Points and single hand edly ended Princeton a run of near upsets in the first round of the tournament. Moten nearly outscored the tigers by himself in the second half and had 14 straight Points for the orangemen 22-9 at one  St. 76,  74 Iowa stare which came into the tournament on a serious skid nearly Slid out of the tournament despite leading North Carolina Charlotte by nine Points with less than two minutes left. But the loth seeded cyclones pulled out the Victory after Charlotte 23-9 closed to 71-69 on a 3-Pointer by Rodney Odom with 45 seconds left. Justus Thigpen led Iowa state 21-12 with 21  Kansas 100, Howard 67 at Dayton Ohio Kansas dominated inside and shot 61 percent to overwhelm Howard. The Jay Hawks 27-4 scored 35 of their 42 baskets on layups dunks or other inside shots. Greg Ostertag led the attack with 16  85, Delaware 47 Nick Van Exel scored 18 Points and Cincinnati a pressing defense forced 33 turnovers As the bearcats snapped Delaware a 20-game winning Streak. Anthony Burford added 14 Points for Cincinnati 26-4 Texas i paso 55, Evansville 50 Johnny Melvin scored the go ahead Basket As Texas i paso rallied to beat Evansville 24-6. Melvin scored on a spinning move around 7-foot-1 Center Sascha Upmann with 2 50 to go putting Texas i paso 26-6 ahead 51-50 after trailing by As Many As nine Points Midway through the second half. Syracuse a Conrad Mcrae and Princeton a Rick Hielscher Battle for the Ball Friday at Worchester mass. Southeast Michigan 73, Temple 66 freshman Jalen Rose scored 19 Points including a tic breaking 3-Pointer with 4 53 remaining to Lead Michigan Over Temple. Rose one of Michigan so fab five quintet of starting freshmen took charge Down the stretch scoring 11 of the wolverines last 18 Points. The wolverines 21-8 recovered after blowing a 14-Point Lead and falling behind 57-53 on a 3-Pointer by Vic Carstarphen who made five Long Range baskets for Temple 17-13. West Urcla 73, Robert Morris 53 at Tempe ariz., Gerald Madkins scored All 16 of his Points in the second half As Urcla overcame a slow Start. Tracy Murray scored 20 Points and Don Maclean had 17 Points and 11 rebounds for the Bruins. So Louisiana 87, Oklahoma 83 Bryon Starks scored 21 Points and southwestern Louisiana 21-10 made 12 consecutive free throws Down the stretch to upset Oklahoma 21-9five players Sank two free throws each for the raging cajuns in the final 1 48, starting with a pair by Todd Hill that broke a 75-All tie. Eric Mouton Marie four in a Row in the last 11 seconds to Seal southwestern a  Mexico St. 81, Depaul 73 Sam Crawford had 21 Points and 11 assists As new Mexico state upset Depaul. The 12th-seeded aggie 24-7 led by As Many As 15 Points in the first half and Depaul got no closer than three in the second half. A no one thought we would win our own tournament and now we re looking Forward to the next game a said new Mexico state coach Neil Mccarthy. Cliff Reed had 16 Points for new Mexico state which won the big West tournament after finishing third in the regular season six games behind univ which was ineligible for Mcaa play. Chris Hickman had 13 Points and William Benjamin 10 for the  81, Wake Forest 58 Dwayne Morton scored 18 of his 20 Points in the second half and keyed an unusual four Point play that boosted Louisville. The eighth seeded cardinals 1910 led 35-25 at halftime but Wake Forest closed to 4440 with 13 40 left when Morton a 6-foot-6 Sophomore made a 3-Pointer. Cornelius Holden was fouled underneath on the play and made the first of a one and one to give Louisville control for Good at 48-40. Rutgers scores win Over James Madison Piscataway . A Rutgers found a Way to overcome its shooting inconsistency from the Field in the opening round of the nit against James Madison a layups plenty of layups. Steve worthy scored 21 Points and Rutgers got a lot of easy baskets inside in building an 18-Point second half Lead in route to a 73-69 Victory Friday night in the final game of the nits opening round. Rutgers 16-14 will also be at Home monday for a second round game against Manhattan 24-8. The jaspers Defeated Wisconsin Green Bay 67-65 on thursday. Other second round games monday will have Florida at Pittsburgh Texas Christian at Purdue Tennessee at Virginia Washington state at new Mexico and Kansas state at notre Dame. Tuesdays schedule has Rhode Island at Boston College and Utah at Arizona state the Scarlet knights never trailed against James Madison 21-11but they had to withstand a spirited comeback by the Dukes that saw them close to just two Points with 10 seconds to play. Worthy Ihen iced the game by hitting two free throws with five seconds to play. Worthy hit 6 of 9 shots from the Field and 7 of 8 free throws. The season ended for James Madison because of its defense. The Dukes who shared the regular season title in the colonial athletic association had limited opponents to 42.8 percent shooting from the Field this season and had held 16 of their last 23 opponents under 70 Points. Rutgers beat the defense hitting 26 of 50 shots or 52 percent and scoring 7a Points. A the defense has been a Strong Point for us All season Quot James Madison coach lefty Driesell said. A but tonight we were just awful on  Daryl Smith added 15 for Rutgers which had an up and Down season that included wins Over Princeton univ and Delaware All Mcaa tournament teams. William Davis had 20 for James Madison 21-11which is now wingless in four nit appearances