The Michigan Daily -- Friday, March 13, 1998 - 15 Lights out for Eastern Michigan Cleaves leads Spartans past Boykins' Eagles in intrastate battle Eastern *Michigan's Earl Boykins drives past Michigan State's Charlie Bell during the first half of their game yesterday. -Boykin and his teammates could not get past the Spartans, plwever, falling 83-71. AP PHOTO HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Mateen Cleaves didn't let foul trouble foil him in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. A matchup zone defense helped his cause. Cleaves, called for three fouls in the first half while guarding 5-foot-5 phenom Earl Boykins, played with poise in the second half as Michigan State beat Eastern Michigan 83-71 in the East Regional on Thursday. Cleaves finished with 20 points on 7-for-14 shooting and stayed out of foul trouble in the final 20 minutes to help the 16th-ranked and fourth-seeded Spartans advance to tomorrow's second round. "I thought the job Mateen did, with the foul trouble he was in, was phenomenal," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. Mixing in some zone defense helped. The Spartans were able to limit the perimeter shoot- ing of Boykins and Derrick Dial in the second half, and to pick up Boykins when he slashed by Cleaves through the lane. "We knew they caused a lot of problems in one-on-one matchups" Cleaves said. "It was a team effort.... The team did a great job helping me out with Boykins." Charlie Bell celebrated his 19th birthday with a career-high 22 points for Michigan State (21- 7), which will face eighth-ranked and fifth- seeded Princeton, which beat UNLV in the first game of last night's doubleheader. Dial led Eastern Michigan (20-10) with 29 points and proved the more lethal of the Eagles' dangerous backcourt duo. He was 8-for-10 in the first half but finished 1l-for-22 from the field. Boykins finished with 18 points but missed eight of his nine 3-point shots and was 6-for-21 from the floor. He had one assist. "As a basketball player, you have bad games and you have good games. This was bad game,' said Boykins, a good nine inches shorter and 20 pounds lighter than any player in Michigan State's lineup. Eastern Michigan coach Milton Barnes pointed out how the Eagles finished a season- low 2-for-19 from 3-point range. Dial and Boykins were a combined 2-for-15 from beyond the arc. "Give Michigan State a lot of credit, doing a great job in the zone, shutting down Earl," Barnes said. The game was delayed for a few minutes after the lights suddenly went out with 3:15 remain- ing and Michigan State leading 73-62. The rest of the game was played in a dimmed arena. The Spartans improved to 25-3 against the Eagles in the first meeting between the in-state rivals since a Michigan State victory in December 1989. Cleaves, trying to recover from a 2-for-19 shooting performance against Minnesota in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals, was tagged for his second foul less than six minutes into the game. He sat down with Michigan State trailing t2- 9 and the Spartans fell behind 16-9 with him on the bench. When Cleaves returned, the Spartans outscored the Eagles 13-4 to go ahead 22-20,-its first lead since 7-6. Dial's jumper from just inside the 3-point line tied the game, and he put Eastern Michigan back up 26-25 with a four-point play. Cleaves, guarded by Boykins, scored fiv straight points, on a 3-pointer and a pull-up, jumper from the right corner, to give Eastern- Michigan a key boost late in the half. "He's a good player," Boykins said. "I always give respect to those who play well against me. And he sure did that." After Bell pushed the lead to 37-30 with a jumper, Cleaves was called for his third foul for hand-checking.Boykins and was on the benh. again with 2:41 left in the first half. South Carolina falls again; Cincinnati survives scare WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - [hose NCAA Tournament spoilers rom Richmond struck again yester- dy.- This time, third-seeded South Carolina was the victim, falling to the 14th-seeded Spiders 62-61 in an East Regional opener in Washington. Jarod Stevenson scored 24 points or Richmond, which sent South G'olina to its second straight embar- assing opening-round loss. Last sea- on, the Gamecocks lost as a No. 2 eed to 15th-seeded Coppin State. Opening-round upsets have become almost routine for Richmond. In 1988, the Spiders, seeded 13th, knocked out furth-seeded defending national hampion Indiana. In 1991, as a 15th eed, they beat second-seeded acuse. And in 1984, they knocked *an Auburn team led by Charles arkl ey. "Every time we come into an arena, Ne just take the attitude that the team ve're playing doesn't know we're ;ood," Richmond forward Nick 'atrick said. CINCINNATI 65, NORTHERN kRIZONA 62 Cincinnati's D'Juan Baker was 4- or-14 from the field before sinking a *per as the Bearcats (27-5) avoided Beoming only the fourth No. 2 to lose oa No. 15 seed. After Baker's shot, Kawika Akina, he quick Hawaiian point guard who ad seven steals, tossed up a desperate -pointer at the buzzer that bounced off the front of the rim. Ross Land and Casey Frank had 13 apiece for the Lumberjacks (21-8). NORTH CAROLINA 88, NAVY 52 At Hartford, the top-ranked Tar Heels (31-3) broke open the game with a 19-2 second-half run against the Midshipmen (19-11). All-American Antawn Jamison led North Carolina with 17 points and 14 rebounds. It was the Tar Heels' first tourna- ment game since 1959 without Dean Smith, who retired as coach before the season. U N C - ' CHARLOTTE 77, CHICAGO 62 D e M a r c o Johnson had 30 w... points and 10 ~-7 # rcbounds and Sean Colson added 18 points and 13 assists for UNCC (20-10), which gets its first-ever shot at North Carolina on Sunday. Anthony Coomes scored 19 points for ninth-seeded UIC (22-6). WASHINGTON 69, XAVIER 68 At Washington, Deon Luton's 17- foot jumper with 11.2 seconds to play gave the Huskies their first NCAA Tournament victory since 1984. Luton, who missed two free throws when Washington (19-9) led 67-66 with 53.2 seconds left, hit his game- winner after Gary Lumpkin's two free throws had given Xavier (22-8) the lead with 42.5 remaining. WEST VIRGINIA 82, TEMPLE 52 The 10th-seeded Mountaineers (23- 8) started with a 9-0 run and Temple never got close in a matchup of teams that were regular Atlantic 10 rivals before West Virginia moved to the Big East. Jarrod West scored 15 for West Virginia and Brent Solheim added 13. Pepe Sanchez led the Owls (21-9) with 15 points. ILLINOIS 64, SOUTH ALABAMA 51 At Sacramento, Calif., the Fighting Illini used 12 steals and tenacious inside defense to force 19 turnovers. Kevin Turner had 18 points and Mat Heldman added 1S as Illinois earned a second-round game against Maryland. Toby Madison had 19 points to lead South Alabama (21-7). PRINCETON 69, UNLV 57 Princeton started the postseason by playing the same way it did in putting up the country's best record in the reg- ular season. The fifth-seeded and eighth-ranked Tigers used the 3-pointer, a few back- door cuts and some pretty good defense to beat UNLV 69-57 last night in the opening round of the East Regional. Princeton (27-1) extended the nation's longest winning streak to 20 games by overcoming some early shooting problems and closing the first half with a 20-2 run for a 35-22 lead. The Runnin' Rebels (20-13) cut the lead to 54-49 with 8:10 left with an 8- 0 run, but as they've done for years, the Tigers went backdoor to end it. s Richmond center - -- -- -h~' Eric Poole hugs teammate Carlos Cueto after defeating South Carolina in NCAA East Regional action yesterday.' The loss marked the second first-. round loss in as many years for. the Gamecocks. AP PHOTO Michigan Union m- 530 S. 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