After Stanford’s draining overtime loss to Arizona on Thursday, the question of whether the team had anything left in the tank popped up yetagain with 11 minutes remaining in the second half and the Cardinal trailing Arizona State, 48-41, at Wells Fargo Arena on Saturday.

But senior center Matt Haryasz, playing his last collegiate game in his home state, provided the much-needed fuel and propelled the team to a 70-64 victory. He scored on the perimeter, at the line and in the paint, pouring in 10 of Stanford’s next 14 points — all part of a 14-3 run that gave the Cardinal (8-7, 4-3 Pacific-10 Conference) a 55-54 edge with 6:08 left to play.

After the Sun Devils (7-10, 1-7) tied the score at 61 with just over two minutes remaining, Haryasz converted a three-point play, taking a pass from senior guard Chris Hernandez and kissing the ball off the glass for the last of his career-high 27 points, 17 of which came in the second period.

“When a fella’s feeling it, you’ve got to keep giving him the ball,” Hernandez said. “And he was feeling it.”

Haryasz’s contributions didn’t only come on the offensive end. With 25 seconds left to play and Arizona State down by two, Sun Devil guard Kevin Kruger drove the lane. Haryasz, in danger of picking up his fifth foul, altered the shot. Kruger missed, Arizona State forward Serge Angounou was whistled for traveling after he fell to the floor with the loose ball, and the Cardinal escaped with their first road win of the season and a much-needed Pac-10 victory.

“It feels awesome to play here,” Haryasz said. “It was a special game for me, and I’m glad we got the win.”

Haryasz joked that it would have been a more memorable trip if Stanford had beaten the Wildcats as well, but Arizona and Arizona State defenders should have no trouble remembering the 52 combined points he scored against the two teams.

Because they were playing in a small, sparsely crowded arena — a world away from Arizona’s rollicking McKale Center — head coach Trent Johnson might have been concerned that the Cardinal would have trouble sustaining their intensity for 40 minutes.

“We knew coming in that if we didn’t come out and match their energy, we wouldn’t be able to hang in this game,” Johnson said. “I told [the team] that there is no excuse in college basketball to not have the same energy level every day, for every game. But I didn’t have to tell them that.”

He certainly didn’t have to tell senior guard Dan Grunfeld, who came out firing — scoring Stanford’s first nine points to keep the game close after the Sun Devils jumped out to a 13-6 lead in the first six minutes of the first half. He scored all 15 of his points in the period.

Grunfeld’s performance was matched by that of Sun Devil freshman Jeff Pendergraph, who scored 14 of his team’s first 22 points on seven-of-eight shooting before falling to the floor with a sprained ankle with 3:39 remaining in the first half. Pendergraph would not return, but he led Arizona State in scoring despite playing only 10 minutes.

The Sun Devils led until 2:54 remained in the first half, when Grunfeld banked a shot off the glass from just outside the key to tie the game at 28. A Haryasz jumper from the wing gave Stanford a 35-33 edge heading into the half.

The second half started slowly for both teams before Kevin Kruger and Bryson Krueger, Arizona State’s leading scorers, went to work. Kevin Kruger nailed an open three to give Arizona State a 40-39 lead 4:35 into the half. Bryson Krueger sank two short jumpers on consecutive possessions and nailed a three to close out a 14-4 Sun Devil run, during which the Cardinal committed four turnovers.

Then Haryasz took over. He blocked a shot, ran the break, got the ball back and dunked it. He made three jumpers, two of the turnaround variety, on Stanford’s next four possessions to give the Cardinal the lead.

It was a nice win for Haryasz, who was playing in front of a number of family members. It was also a crucial victory for the Cardinal, who are only one game back in a crowded Pac-10 race in which six teams are within one game of the top spot.

Hernandez was bothered by a bad back throughout the game at Arizona State, a recurring injury that he attributed in part to fatigue; he played 39 minutes against Arizona after practicing at less than full speed in recent weeks.

Hernandez played 30 minutes against the Sun Devils but scored only nine points to go with two assists, well below his season averages. Freshman guard Mitch Johnson picked up the slack, notching a career-high six assists.

Tests over the weekend revealed that sophomore forward Peter Prowitt, who hasn’t played since Jan. 13, is suffering from bone bruises in his back. He is tentatively scheduled to return to practice today after sitting out last week.