BURNABY — In an emotional final scene Friday night, in a sport only high school basketball games are seemingly able to produce, the fans of Coquitlam’s Centennial Centaurs stormed the court in absolute delirium to celebrate their team’s 69-62 upset win of No. 1-ranked, undefeated and defending B.C. champion Burnaby South in the semifinals of […]
High School Boys Basketball
The Grizz find their growl! After a soul-crushing January, Chilliwack’s defending B.C. Triple-A champs find a way to punch their golden tickets to Big Dance ’22!
LANGLEY — It’s never easy to punch your tickets to the Big Dance, and no one could relate to that any better than the head coach of the defending B.C. Triple A basketball champions from Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham Secondary.“All we wanted to do was to get back to the B.C.’s so we could get a […]
Junior Boys Basketball 32-team draw released as B.C. high school basketball’s official championship season prepares itself for Saturday tip-off at the LEC!
LANGLEY — The B.C. high school boys and girls basketball championship season is March Madness defined and it begins Saturday as the B.C. junior boys event tips off at the home of the provincial game: The Langley Events Centre.That signals the start of 12 days of provincial tournaments over a 15-day span: Feb. 26-March 1 […]
B.C. boys high school basketball rankings 02.22.22 edition: No. 1’s all hold ground while AAA McMath and AA Windsor take biggest jumps ahead of zone championship week!
LANGLEY — The bookends of Quad- and Single-A remained calm, yet the waters were far from serene within B.C.’s two middle tiers as the senior boys basketball world turned towards, what will be for the most part, its final week of pre-B.C. tournament action.Richmond’s R.A. McMath Wildcats jumped from the honourable mention to No. 7 […]
B.C. boys high school basketball rankings 02.15.22 edition: Kelowna, The Grove, P-Marg’s Lions, Credo Kodiaks all make big Top 10 moves!
LANGLEY — Just in case you thought it was a given who the top teams at each tier were heading into playoffs, the grind of the season and the overall depth of play reminded us that there is still so much more to be told.Six honourable mention teams from a week ago moved into Top […]
March Madness comes to the LEC! Attn: Past players, coaches and media members, too… share your favourite B.C. boys or girls tourney memories with us via video!
Hey Varsity Letters’ readers, here’s a note from all of the dedicated people working behind the scenes at the Langley Events Centre who are determined to make March Madness as special as it deserves to be following last season’s cancelled 2020-21 provincial basketball championship tournaments:LANGLEY — With the Junior Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournaments and the […]
Kelowna’s No. 9 Quad-A Owls make southern migration! With trio of Top 10 foes scheduled, coach Parmar says ‘Our goal is still to make it to March 12!’
Few high school teams can rival the Kelowna Owls senior boys basketball in terms of kilometres travelled over the course of a season.Yet with the pandemic and the flooding playing havoc on its primary method of preparing for the annual grind that is the B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball championships next month, the stalwart KSS […]
B.C. boys high school basketball rankings 02.08.22 edition: With playoff fever in the air, there’s new No. 1’s at Triple- and Single-A!
LANGLEY — It’s that special time of the basketball season as league play wraps up and playoffs begin to take centre stage.With that said, here are the latest B.C. senior boys high school basketball rankings over a week in which a pair of new No. 1’s emerged.Surrey’s Elgin Park Orcas moved to the top of […]
B.C. junior boys Top 10 basketball rankings 02.08.22 edition: Surrey’s Elgin Park Orcas surge from unranked to No. 7 in most topsy-turvy poll of season!
LANGLEY — The B.C. boys junior basketball championships are set to tip off Feb. 26 at the LEC, and as we hit the stretch drive there is nothing much to report except the most topsy-turvy stretch of the entire campaign thus far.Only two of the Top 10 spots remained static, headed by No. 1 Vancouver […]
A Sunday Read: Why Byrne Creek’s Marcell Sherwood helps us all better cherish our bounce-back season of B.C. high school basketball!
BURNABY — Throughout the COVID-cancelled 2020-21 season, we wondered openly and talked aloud of just what was being lost by the thousands upon thousands of student-athletes across this province who were denied the myriad of benefits which come from taking part in school-based sports.Well, the answer has come this season in all of the ways […]