Basketball Sports Editorial

The Stanford Cardinals mens basketball group won, 82-69 over visitng azimuth State on Thursday night. With the win, the Cardinals ended a two-game losing streak and continued their ninth straight win at home. This was an significant 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 precedential, dull Haryasz, who scored 22 points, said Right now we just need to win. Were yet a game out of first and we think we got robbed out of unity at U of A.Were going to be pumped up to play. Haryasz, who has dealt with tidy sum problems stemming from a poke to the midriff two weeks ago at operating theatre State, became the 35th player in school history to reach 1,000 points, sideline Hernandez, who reached the milestone earlier this season. Haryasz also became the 13th player to record 1,000 points and 600 rebounds. This taint has put things in perspective for me, Haryasz said. Sometimes you ta ke things for granted ilk always being able 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 degage 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. Also a senior at Stanford, Dan Grunfeld, scored a career-high 31 points against Arizona on Thursday. He make 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-conference 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, alone his shooting and scoring beget both been off from last year. The fact that we won is more important, but it is special 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. Grunfeld 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 hearty comfortably. 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 foul line and started rolling. Stanfords Antwi Atuahene, who scored 10 points, take 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 adjunct 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 U niversity of Arizona Wildcats to their one-sixth conference loss. The Wildcats are coming to Stanford Maples Pavilion on Sunday at 1230 p. m. for a key game.