Humphrey, Allen give Stanford hope going into homestretch

With five games left in the regular season, Stanford may need to run the table and make an impressive showing in the Pac-12 Tournament in order to get into the NCAA Tournament. [...] a loss at Washington on Saturday in Seattle might be enough to put the NIT back in the Cardinal’s postseason picture. Fortunately for Stanford, Michael Humphrey appears to be over the effects of the knee contusion that bothered him the last three weeks. [...] the Huskies (15-11, 7-7) have lost four straight games. UW has the conference’s leading scorer in senior guard Andrew Andrews (20.4), backed up by two freshmen, guard Dejounte Murray (14.8) and forward Marquese Chriss (13.3).