ASU Basketball: Sun Devils win tight road-battle at Stanford 69-65 after second-half comeback

Without big-man Warren Washington (COVID) against a tall-and-long Stanford (10-14, 4-9 Pac-12) team, Arizona State (17-8, 8-6) took the victory on the road in Palo Alto 69-65 on Thursday night.

For the second game in a row, guard DJ Horne led all ASU-scorers with 18 points on 6-of-15 shooting. As a team, the Sun Devils only shot 41.5% from the field, and the only took a total of 10 free throws on the night. They made five of them. On the other bench, Stanford only shot 37.1% from the field and turned the ball over 15 times to ASU’s 10.

It was not the most polished game of basketball we have ever seen.

With another slow first-five minute performance to start the second half, Stanford ended up…