LANGLEY — Welcome to the opening day of play here at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Please continue to check back on this posting throughout the day for updates as we wind our way through the eight-game sudden elimination Sweet 16 bracket.QUADRANT ANO. 1 DUCHESS PARK 83, NO. 16 MARK ISFELD 60By Dan Kinvig […]
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FINAL EDITION Quad-A boys Day 1: Varsity Letters gives you live game day reports and photos of all eight opening-round games!
ALL STORIES BY HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Welcome to the opening day of play here at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Please continue to check back on this posting throughout the day for updates as we wind our way through the eight-game sudden elimination Sweet 16 bracket.
U Sports Final 8 preview: Kevin Hanson, a former UBC point guard, steps out of his coaching box to bring out best in ‘Birds floor general Jadon Cohee!
VANCOUVER — There is a little part of Kevin Hanson the player, who still remembers what it was like, some 33 years ago, to be part of a team which was able to catch lightning in a bottle.Today, he’s 20 seasons into his journey as the head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds, but back in […]
B.C. boys high school basketball museum opens at LEC! Photos, memorabilia celebrate 75 years of provincial champions
LANGLEY — Fans making the rounds at the Langley Event Centre beginning Wednesday at the B.C. Boys High School Basketball Championships will get a chance to see the province’s best teams in action at four different tiers of competition.Yet in this, the Diamond Anniversary of the B.C.’s most tradition-laden and documented provincial championship tournament, there […]
Wow, the ultimate GOAT list! The B.C. Boys Championship Tournament’s 25 Greatest High School Basketball Players of All Time!
LANGLEY — Welcome to the list to top all lists in the world of B.C. boys high school basketball. With the 75th birthday of the heralded classic set to tip off Wednesday, a special committee struck by the B.C. High School Boys Basketball Association to celebrate its diamond anniversary has produced its list of the B.C. […]
G.W. Graham ready to bear down! After four Final Fours and four Elite 8’s, Chilliwack’s Grizz set sights on four wins and a B.C. AAA title
LANGLEY — A dozen games does not a season make, yet in the case of Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham Grizzlies (23-9), everything about its most recent 12 games of this season seem a portent to their week ahead as one of the favourites at the B.C. senior boys Triple A basketball championships.The Grizzlies have been one […]
B.C. Boys Championships 2020: Who’s in the toughest quadrant across all four tiers? It’s Abby-Terry Fox, Van College-Fleetwood Park
LANGLEY — The toughest overall quadrant across all four tiers of competition at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships belongs to a quartet of teams who have been provincially ranked or owned honourable mention status for the entire season.
THE 75th ANNIVERSARY FINALE: Nanaimo ’78 and Richmond ’88 both brought depth, talent and innovation to the court! So which team was best?
LANGLEY — By this time next week, we will have crowned B.C’s. 75th top-tiered senior boys high school basketball champions.
Sweet 16 bracket mania arrives: Your one-stop location to study all four 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball provincial championship draws!
LANGLEY — We’ve got all four of the B.C. boys senior varsity high school championship draws released Sunday right here in one placeIn order, you’ll find the B.C. senior boys 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A tournament draws.Under each draw, we’ve provided a handy URL to click on to receive a higher quality version of each […]
A Sunday Read: Britannia’s B.C. AA girls hoops title “…is for East Van, for public schools, for a community which has been with us from Day 1′
LANGLEY — They weren’t underdogs, yet provincial high school basketball championships don’t exactly grow on trees in the East Vancouver neighbourhood they call home.And so on the occasion of Saturday’s 81-73 win over the Langley Christian Lightning in the championship final of the B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball tournament, the words of Britannia Bruins’ assistant […]