Cleveland State associate head coach Jayson Gee, left, cheers for his team during the second half against Wake Forest in a first-round men’s NCAA college basketball game in Miami on Friday.

MIAMI — Some 23 years later, Cleveland State still has a knack for first-round shockers in the NCAA tournament.

The Vikings raced to an early 17-point lead Friday night and stunned one-time top-ranked Wake Forest 84-69. The win was reminiscent of Cleveland State’s only other appearance in the tournament in 1986, when it upset Indiana and Bob Knight in the opening round.

The Vikings (26-10) were seeded 14th then; they’re 13th in the Midwest region this year.

“We understand what the ’86 team did was important for our school,” said Norris Cole, who led Cleveland State with 22 points. “But now it’s time for a new chapter.”

On Sunday, the Vikings will play No. 12 Arizona (20-13), which beat Utah 84-71.

No. 4-seeded Wake Forest (24-7) lost in its first tournament game since 2005. The Demon Deacons won their first 16 games and were No. 1 for a week in January, but they lost their final two games of the season.

Sputtering offense again plagued the Demon Deacons, as it did when they were beaten by Maryland last week in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. They committed 18 turnovers to six by Cleveland State, which held Wake Forest well below its scoring average of 81 points per game.

Demon Deacons season scoring leader Jeff Teague was shut out for the first 13 minutes, totaled two points in the first half and finished with 10, half of his average. James Johnson’s trio of three-pointers kept Wake Forest in the game in the first half, and he finished with 22 points. Al-Farouq Aminu scored 17.

J’Nathan Bullock scored 21 points for Cleveland State, and Cedric Jackson had 19 points and eight assists. Jackson hobbled off the court in the final minute with cramps, but coach Gary Waters said he would be fine.

The upset was the latest sign of revival in the Vikings’ program. They went 4-25 in 2003-04 and 10-21 only two years ago, when Waters was in his first season as coach.

Against Wake Forest, Cleveland State had a size disadvantage but found ways to compensate. The section with fans from Ohio erupted in the second half when the 6-foot-3 Jackson dunked after catching an alley-oop inbounds pass from Cole.

By then, much of the arena was rooting on the underdogs.

“We believed from the start of the game that we could play with this team,” Cole said.

In other first-round games on Friday (with seeds):

WEST REGIONAL

No. 6 Marquette 58

No. 11 Utah State 57

BOISE, Idaho — Lazar Hayward scored 26 points and Marquette made 10 straight free throws down the stretch to beat Utah State in the first round of the West Regional. Jerel McNeal and Wesley Matthews each scored 14 points for sixth-seeded Marquette (25-9), which blew a 14-point lead before rallying from a six-point deficit to win.

No. 3 Missouri 78

No. 14 Cornell 59

BOISE, Idaho — DeMarre Carroll scored all but two of his 13 points in the second half to help the third-seeded Tigers pull away from the plucky Big Red. Leo Lyons finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds for the Tigers (29-6).

Midwest Regional

No. 12 Arizona 84

No. 5 Utah 71

MIAMI — So much for the notion Arizona might not have belonged in the NCAA tournament. Nic Wise scored 21 of his 29 points in the second half, Chase Budinger added 20 and the 12th-seeded Wildcats — one of the last teams into the field of 65 — knocked off fifth-seeded Utah 84-71 Friday night in the first round of the Midwest Regional.

No. 10 Southern Cal 69

No. 7 Boston College 55

MINNEAPOLIS — Taj Gibson was a perfect 10 for Southern California, and way out of Boston College’s league. Gibson had 24 points on 10-for-10 shooting from the field, sending the 10th-seeded Trojans to a victory over Boston College.

No. 3 Kansas 84

No. 14 North Dakota State 74

MINNEAPOLIS — Sherron Collins scored a season-high 32 points and went toe-to-toe with NDSU star Ben Woodside, while Cole Aldrich had 23 points to lead the defending NCAA champions. Woodside played all 40 minutes and scored 37 points.

No. 1 Louisville 74

No. 16 Morehead State 54

DAYTON, Ohio — The NCAA tournament’s top team had a few early missteps Friday, but uncoiled its full-court press in the second half and rolled to a victory over Morehead State that completed 25 years of perfection by No. 1 seeds.

No. 11 Dayton 68

No. 6 West Virginia 60

MINNEAPOLIS — Dayton is haunted by Bob Huggins no longer. Chris Wright scored a career-high 27 points to lead the 11th-seeded Flyers to a win over sixth-seeded West Virginia in the first round of the Midwest Regional.

No. 9 Siena 74

No. 8 Ohio State 72

DAYTON, Ohio — Siena’s Ronald Moore hit a three-pointer with 3.9 seconds left in the second overtime — from the identical spot he made one at the end of the first OT — as the Saints beat Ohio State.

No. 2 Michigan State 77

No. 15 Robert Morris 62

MINNEAPOLIS — Raymar Morgan scored 16 points and Goran Suton had 11 points and 17 rebounds as Michigan State bullied 15th-seeded Robert Morris.

South Regional

No. 3 Syracuse 59

No. 14 Stephen F. Austin 44

MIAMI — Jonny Flynn scored 16 points, Rick Jackson and Arinze Onuaku each added 12 and the third-seeded Orange cruised past NCAA first-timer Stephen F. Austin. Syracuse (27-9) ran out to a 20-4 lead, never letting the Southland Conference champions get anything going.

No. 6 Arizona State 66

No. 11 Temple 57

MIAMI — James Harden’s only basket, a three-pointer with 4:02 left, helped the Sun Devils hold off Temple and reach 25 wins for the first time since 1975. The Sun Devils’ scoring leader was one-for-eight and was held to nine points, less than half his average.

East Regional

No. 4 Xavier 77

No. 13 Portland State 59

BOISE, Idaho — C.J. Anderson scored 14 points and Xavier shot 54 percent from the field, beating Portland State to reach the second round of the tournament for the third straight year. The Musketeers (26-7) stifled Portland State’s usual barrage of three-pointers and showed they could shoot from the outside, too, making eight of 19 tries and going 29-for-54 overall.

No. 1 Pittsburgh 72

No. 16 East Tennessee State 62

DAYTON, Ohio — DeJuan Blair had 27 points and 16 rebounds as the Panthers, playing their first game as a top seed, survived a frightful 40 minutes from East Tennessee State. The Panthers made 18 turnovers and struggled with ETSU’s end-to-end press.

No. 8 Oklahoma State 77

No. 9 Tennessee 75

DAYTON, Ohio — Byron Eaton found a clear path to the basket for a three-point play with 7.2 seconds left, sending the Cowboys to a scintillating victory over Tennessee. Tyler Smith had a chance to win it for Tennessee (21-13), but his jumper from behind the arc hit the side of the rim and bounced up to the top of the backboard as the buzzer sounded. Smith led all scorers with 21 points.

No. 12 Wisconsin 61

No. 5 Florida State 59

BOISE, Idaho — Trevon Hughes’ twisting shot over Florida State’s outstretched arms dropped with 2 seconds left to lift the Badgers to an overtime victory.