The final week of the B.C. high school basketball season is now underway with Day 1 of the 2023 B.C, boys basketball championships.Please check back here throughout the day for continual live game report updates on this tier.ALL STORIES BY HOWARD TSUMURAQUAD-A(All games at Arena Bowl)DAY 1SWEET 16TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANO. 1 SEMIAHMOO 116 NO. […]
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“Hey Coach Ebe, some season, huh?” From lessons learned as guest coach at Sacramento Kings camp, to magical year at West Van, Paul Eberhardt leads Highlanders into B.C. Sweet 16 clash against Rich Chambers & Terry Fox Ravens!
WEST VANCOUVER — He was bold enough as a high school senior back in the earliest days of the 1980s to step forward, take his own team and declare his major for life: Basketball coach.And this past fall, when the opportunity arose to attend the NBA training camp of the Sacramento Kings as a guest […]
Let the madness begin! Plot your four days of B.C. senior boys basketball heaven at the LEC! As we prep for a Wednesday top, here’s all four Sweet 16 draw in hi-res format!
LANGLEY — Fun to take a peak inside at Arena Bowl on Sunday afternoon at the Langley Events Centre.The floor is in and the anticipation begins for tip-off to the 2023 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Hope you’ll visit and re-visit here as you plan your schedule around the action with the draw from all four […]
Boys Top 10 Hoops rankings: How did the PRESEASON poll compare with the 03.01.23 FINAL poll at all four tiers!
LANGLEY — The final Top 10 polls of the season are out. How did they compare with the first poll of the season? Take a look.We’ve got the preseason poll from Nov. 22 included down below.The boys B.C. tournaments tip off March 8 at the LEC.BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSFINALQUAD A1 Semiahmoo Thunderbirds (Surrey) (SF) (LW-1)2 […]
STM’s Tarrence Booker: A rarity in this day and age, Knights’ Fraser North AAA MVP says: “Social media doesn’t really equate to how good a player really is”
LANGLEY — It was the kind of moment that a kid named Booker (T. Book to his friends) has learned to read all too well over the course of his high school basketball career.On Sunday afternoon, as the Fraser North Triple-A senior boys basketball championship game wound its way to what everyone at the Langley […]
Zeru Abera finds his perfect arc as last-second jumper gives STM first B.C. Jr. boys crown in 35 years, Knights’ fans storm LEC’s South Court in celebration!
LANGLEY — On Tuesday night, the game clock at the Langley Event Centre’s South Court tried its best to tell Zeru Abera that it was time to panic.It flashed the fact that only 11 seconds remained in a classic B.C. junior boys championship game tied at 42-42 between Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Knights and the […]
Tray bien! Tamanawis’ budding superstar Tray Belanger takes ‘giant steps’ in leading ‘Cats past Kodiaks and into tonight’s B.C. Junior boys title tilt!
No. 1 TAMANAWIS 69 No. 12 HERITAGE WOODS 55LANGLEY — On Monday night, just past the midway mark of the second quarter, at a juncture of the biggest basketball game of both teams’ season, it took but a second for one player to remind us all that he was ready to take on all comers.Tray […]
How STM’s tree of tradition makes 1988 seems like yesterday! B.C. Jr. Final 4 win over Brookswood sends Knights back to title game for first time in 35 years!
No. 11 ST. THOMAS MORE 66 No. 7 BROOKSWOOD 49LANGLEY — In the moments after victory, Corbin Castres said it as simply as he could.“There’s no words to describe what it feels like to represent our school,” the St. Thomas More Knights’ head coach said Monday night after leading his team past Langley’s Brookswood Bobcats 66-49 […]
On the marvels of the 1-3-1 trapping zone: A late defensive shift sparks Terry Fox senior Sukhraj Garcha to next-level play and gives Ravens the Fraser North Quad-A title!
LANGLEY — Utter the numbers ‘1-3-1’ to the Terry Fox Ravens’ bearded, crash-and-bang senior power forward Sukhraj Garcha, along with the simple word ‘trap’ and the result seems to not only include an induced, trance-like state but also an energy burst that is easily greater than a swig of fresh-squeezed orange juice.On Sunday night, with 4:21 […]
B.C. Boys Basketball Sweet 16 bracket reveal show set to air Sunday on TFSETV! Plan those team gatherings as Chris & Howard usher in March Madness!
LANGLEY — The B.C. senior boys basketball championship draw show is set to live stream on TFSETV.ca on Sunday beginning at 3:30 p.m.As has become an annual March Madness tradition, host Chris Kennedy and Varsity Letters’ sportswriter Howard Tsumura will bring you the official unveilings of (in order) the Single-A, Double-A, Triple-A and Quad-A 16-team […]