Byrne Creek's Bobby Mabeny hit eight treys in leading the Bulldogs past No. 2 GW Graham, and into Saturday morning's Final Four at the Robert Bateman Timberwolves Classic in Abbotsford. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2020. All Rights Reserved)
Yale's Jauquin Bennett-Boire was named MVP as the Yale Lions won the 2015 B.C. Triple-A title. ) (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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The diamond jubilee bracket! Here’s how our 75th anniversary B.C. boys all-time first-round games played out

NORTH DELTA — Our learned basketball elders have spoken.After what were surely furious debates, they have delivered the opening-round results in our BCHSBBA 75th anniversary All-Time B.C. Boys Basketball Tournament Bracket.As one member of the panel said to me: “If half the people are happy and the other half furious, then I guess we nailed […]

The sweetest moment! Richmond's Louis Johnson, the 1991 MVP, shears the nylon at one end of the PNE Agrodome court after the Super Colts topped Burnaby Central for all of the spoils 29 years ago. (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
The 1961 Magee Blackshirts in action against the Semiahmoo Totems in the 1961 single-tier B.C. boys basketball championship, played before 5,000 fans at UBC's War Memorial Gymnasium. (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
Steveston Packers Gareth Davies (left) and Ryan Brown celebrate a B.C. championship win over Richmond in 1984. (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
Kate Stewart-Barnett the cross-country harrier and steeplechaser (right) has brought so many of her running qualities to the St, Thomas More Knights' senior girls basketball team. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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“…Try to catch Kate!” At St. Thomas More, nationally-regarded middle-distance runner Stewart-Barnett gives pace to No. 3-ranked Knights basketball

BURNABY — If they ever get around to presenting an award for the best-conditioned athlete in all of B.C. high school basketball, they can throw the trophy in the back seat and take it straight over to the campus of Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Collegiate.

Yale's Riley Braich was a first-team all-star when his Lions won the 2015 B.C. Quad-A title over the Terry Fox Ravens. The 2015 Lions will face the 1995 Aldergrove Totems in the first round of our 75th anniversary, 64-team all-time fantasy tournament. (Photo property of the B.C. High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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The bracket unveiled: The 64 greatest BC high school teams plug themselves in for a 75th anniversary ‘diamond jubilee’ run to March Madness

LANGLEY — The greatest of all time?It’s an eternal question… a question that in almost every instance shy of undiscovered scientific technology, ultimately provides no clear-cut answer.But oh, what fun we can have debating this one: Which team is the greatest in the 75-year history of the B.C. senior boys high school basketball championships?The basketball […]

Heritage Woods' Deveroe Boyko and the rest of the Kodiaks turned in their best week of the season and fought their back into the B.C. Quad-A boys basketball Top 10. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. senior boys basketball rankings 01.29.20: While powers hold court, Tamanawis and Heritage Woods move into Quad-A Top 10

NORTH DELTA — With post-season basketball just around the corner and the proliferation of invitationals beginning to abate, the province’s top teams largely held court over the past week.Burnaby South, Duchess Park of Prince George, Prince Rupert’s Charles Hays, and Unity Christian of Chilliwack continue to lead their respective tiers from Quad- through Single-A.Here’s a […]

Port Moody's Heritage Woods Kodiaks are playing some of their best basketball of the season, as reflected by their surge in Quad-A poll points this week. They are, however, crossing their fingers that talented guard Maddie Counsell will be able to return for the season's stretch drive from a recent knee injury. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. senior girls basketball rankings 01.29.20: Marin & her Panthers new Triple-A No. 1, Heritage Woods Kodiaks see spike in Quad-A poll points

LANGLEY — Momentum was clearly on the side of the Heritage Woods Kodiaks and Abbotsford Panthers, the two teams who made the most of their time at this past week’s Timberwolves Classic invitational at Abbotsford’s Robert Bateman Secondary.