That's how good third place in Quad-A feels for the Okanagan-Mission Huskies. The Kelowna-based team will be back on the court vying for No. 1 in the 2024-25 season ranked No. 6 in B.C.'s largest tier. (Photo by Mark Steffens property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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It’s way-too-early Top 10 time! B.C. senior girls’ pre-preason basketball rankings for 2024-25 are here!

LANGLEY — With the 2023-24 B.C. senior girls basketball season now recently in the rearview mirror, it’s time for our first look at the road ahead.That can mean just one thing: The pre-prepreseason Top 10’s at all four tiers!Let this be all the reasons you keep our great game at the forefront of your thoughts […]

How popular have the B.C. senior girls basketball championships become? This season's Quad-A final between North Delta's Seaquam Seahawks and the Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam was so popular that the game was played before a standing-room only sell-out crowd at its Centre Court complex. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. girls high school basketball will celebrate 75th provincial championships in 2025 at LEC by playing all of its Championship final games on the big floor of Arena Bowl!

LANGLEY — B.C. high school basketball’s championship season is coming off what may well be its most comprehensively attended back-to-back-to-back provincial tournaments.And while the walls at the host Langley Events Centre seems to still be reverberating almost a full week after their completion, the long-whispered rumours about a key venue change for one of those […]

Tyler Felt (right) of Spectrum closes off the lay-in attempt of Tamanwis' Seva Virk in Saturday's B.C. Quad-A championship final March 9, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Boys 4-A final: They came out of nowhere in a hurry! But Spectrum Thunder’s B.C. title win over Tammy bubbled over with ties to its past, brilliant skill and young coach who brought out the best in everyone!

By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — There are so many paths to traverse and rivers to cross in the quest of a B.C. senior boys top-tiered high school basketball championship that the journey of virtually every single prior winners is rife with clues… the breadcrumbs have been easy to find.They are kind of like the staples on […]

On his way to tourney MVP honours, Dover Bay's Frank Linder takes aim against the MEI Eagles in Saturday's B.C. Triple-A championship final March 9, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Boys 3-A championship: No words could be more true than ‘It’s not a race, it’s a marathon’ for Dover Bay! Dolphins’ coach Seaman, MVP Linder put trust in grand plan in B.C. title-game win over MEI Eagles!

LANGLEY — Explore the deep and voluminous lore of B.C. senior boys basketball history, and a common thread of its early days often times centres around the good, old-fashioned discipline of running.As I grew into the high school school reporter’s beat at The Province newspaper in the early 1990s, I heard the tales of teams […]

Collingwood's Amir Mojarradi drives down court against Brentwood College's Jackson Lenarcic. during Championship Saturday at the 2024 B.C. senior boys basketball tournament March 9, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. 2-A championship final: Cavaliers trey magnifique! With splash after splash, high-volume, high-percentage threes carry Collingwood to crown!

BY GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – Seeded No. 3 and deadly with the three.The Collingwood Cavaliers rode a red-hot afternoon from behind the arc to a 71-64 win over No. 4 seed Brentwood College in the Double A final at the B.C. senior boys high school championships at the Langley Events Centre.It was […]

Gidgalang Kuuyas Naay Breakers' Temo Laughlin blocks a reverse lay-in attempt by Unity Christian's Luke McGee during Championship Saturday at the 2024 B.C. senior boys basketball tournament March 9, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Boys 1A championship final: Upset bid earn’s crowd’s rapt attention, but Haida Gwaii’s Breakers fall in the end to dynastic Flames of Unity Christian!

NO. 1 UNITY CHRISTIAN 74 NO. 6 GIDGALANG KUUYAS NAAY 71BY GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – It was going to be a Cinderella story for the ages in the B.C. senior boys Single A basketball final at Langley Events Centre.But, alas, there would be no dramatic, Hoosiers-like finish on Saturday as the gutsy, […]

Spectrum's Tyler Felt (left) is guarded by West Van's Harris Cameron during Day 3 Final Four semifinal-round play at the 2024 B.C. senior boys basketball championships March 8, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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03.08.24 Day 3 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior boys Quad-A Friday Final Four semifinal basketball championships!

Hello B.C. boys high school basketball fans.Final Four Friday has arrived.Myself and our Varsity Letters’ team of writers will be bringing you full coverage of all eight semifinals form the 1, 2, 3 and 4A tiers tonight.Remember that whatever tier you’re reading about here, all you need to do is go there main page at […]

Collingwood's Cy Bosa takes a jump hook over Pacific Academy during Day 3 Final Four semifinal-round play at the 2024 B.C. senior boys basketball championships March 8, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Langley Events Centre 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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03.08.24 Day 3 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior boys Double-A Friday Final Four semifinal basketball championships!

Hello B.C. boys high school basketball fans.Final Four Friday has arrived.Myself and our Varsity Letters’ team of writers will be bringing you full coverage of all eight semifinals form the 1, 2, 3 and 4A tiers tonight.Remember that whatever tier you’re reading about here, all you need to do is go there main page at […]

Maple Ridge Christian's Caleb Arrington (right) makes a tight grip impossible for GKS Breakers' Loay Almahmiid during Day 3 Final Four semifinal-round play at the 2024 B.C. senior boys basketball championships March 8, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Langley Events Centre 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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03.08.24 Day 3 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior boys Single-A Friday Final Four semifinal basketball championships!

Hello B.C. boys high school basketball fans.Final Four Friday has arrived.Myself and our Varsity Letters’ team of writers will be bringing you full coverage of all eight semifinals form the 1, 2, 3 and 4A tiers tonight.Remember that whatever tier you’re reading about here, all you need to do is go there main page at […]

Dover Bay's Joe Linder take a jump shot against Lord Byng's Marco Radic during Day 3 Final Four semifinal-round play at the 2024 B.C. senior boys basketball championships March 8, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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03.08.24 Day 3 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior boys Triple-A Friday Final Four semifinal basketball championships!

Hello B.C. boys high school basketball fans.Final Four Friday has arrived.Myself and our Varsity Letters’ team of writers will be bringing you full coverage of all eight semifinals form the 1, 2, 3 and 4A tiers tonight.Remember that whatever tier you’re reading about here, all you need to do is go there main page at […]