Basketball Sports Editorial

The Stanford Cardinals mens basketball team won, 82-69 over visitng Arizona State on Thursday night. With the win, the Cardinals cease a deuce-game losing streak and continued their ninth straight win at home. This was an important game for the Pac-10 Conference teams. After the game, Stanford (9-4,13-9) remained a game behind co-leaders UCLA and California. Stanford senior, compressed Haryasz, who scored 22 points, said Right now we just need to win. Were only a game out of first and we think we got robbed out of one at U of A.Were going to be pumped up to play. Haryasz, who has dealt with vision problems stemming from a poke to the eye two weeks ago at Oregon State, became the 35th impostor in school history to reach 1,000 points, following Hernandez, who reached the milestone earlier this season. Haryasz also became the 13th player to record 1,000 points and 600 rebounds. This injury has put things in post for me, Haryasz said. Sometimes you take things for granted like alway s being adequate to(p) to see perfectly. To go down with the eye injury was tough.Its nice to see again. Stanfords Chris Hernandez scored 12 points and extended his consecutive turn throw streak to 34. Hernandez is now seven shy of Todd Lichtis 41 straight, and 15 short of the school record held by Ryan Mendez. likewise a senior at Stanford, Dan Grunfeld, scored a career-high 31 points against Arizona on Thursday. He made 9 of 11 shots from the field and all 11 of his free throws. He now has a total of 914 career points for Stanford. Grunfeld, a first-team all- assembly pick hold water year, injured his knee last Feb. 2 and had surgery on Feb. 23. He missed the final nine games of the season, but his shooting and scoring have both been off from last year. The fact that we won is more important, but it is superfluous for me as far as coming back from an injury. Grinfeld said. Im wearing a lighter brace now, and its nice to be able to do things I wasnt able to do before. Grunf eld began wearing the new brace in Saturdays loss at Gonzaga. Cardinal coach Treant Johnson said of Grunfeld and his new brace, Hes had a lot of bounce the last week.I thought at Gonzaga he looked real good. Its nice to have Danny back. Haryas said, You can tell hes moving more fluid, and thats good for the team. Its good to know hes able to do so much more. A bunch of times I hit him (with passes), he was wide open. He got a couple of easy buckets, went to the constipate argumentation and started rolling. Stanfords Antwi Atuahene, who scored 10 points, stole the ball and went all the way in for a layin to draw Arizona State within 49-43 with 1337 to play.He was called for a foul 17 seconds later, and a technical foul assessed on Sun Devil assistant coach Tony Benford moments later. Stanford made all four free throws on the play, and Hernandez added two more foul shots on the ensuing possession to push its lead back to double digits. Also on Thursday, Cal sent the University of Arizona Wildcats to their sixth conference loss. The Wildcats are coming to Stanford Maples Pavilion on Sunday at 1230 p. m. for a key game.