PORT COQUITLAM — They’re named after a legendary stable of professional wrestlers ever assembled, and in a manner of speaking it’s actually very fitting because any time they’ve found themselves on the figurative ropes, a tag-team mentality has just seemed to take over.In a nutshell, that’s the best way to sum up the the quartet […]
High School Boys Basketball
Rolling down their own Thunder Road: Behind its Hinrichsen-Felt-Helman power trio, Saanich’s Spectrum Thunder earn old-school respect as B.C.’s new No. 1-ranked Quad-A boys basketball team!
BURNABY — Is March Madness 2024 going to play out to the strains of Bruce Springsteen’s classic Thunder Road?Or perhaps that should be AC/DC’s power-chord bonanza known as Thunderstruck?As January does its usual fast-break towards February and the stretch drive to the B.C. senior boys basketball championships, its soundtrack has indeed been thunderous, as in […]
B.C. Boys Top 10 basketball rankings 01.17.24 edition: Spectrum, Lord Byng each move into No. 1 slots, while Lord Tweedsmuir and STMC enjoy this week’s healthiest climbs!
LANGLEY — The Spectrum Thunder of Saanich, and Vancouver’s Lord Byng Grey Ghosts are the new No. 1-ranked senior boys basketball teams atop the province’s two largest tiers.The then-No. 2 Thunder topped former No. 1 Oak Bay 74-65 in Quad-A South Island league play Tuesday, while Byng’s 2-0 week coupled with former No. 1 St. […]
B.C. BOYS BASKETBALL TOP 10 RANKINGS 01.10.24 EDITION: Oak Bay back on top at Quad-A! B.C.’s newest cross-town rivalry resumes vs No. 2 Spectrum resumes Jan. 16! First ranks of 2024 are here!
LANGLEY — As 2023 gives way to 2024, it’s been a case of ‘all quiet’ atop the upper reaches of B.C. senior boys basketball.That is unless you look to the Vancouver Island South league, where the province’s top two Quad-A teams are making news each time they step on the court.The latest installement in the […]
B.C. BOYS BASKETBALL TOP 10 RANKINGS 12.20.23 EDITION: Spectrum moves into Quad-A No. 1 after topping Oak Bay in final of Bays’ own Gary Taylor Classic! Here’s all four tiers!
LANGLEY — Quad-A has a new No. 1 as an all-capital clash capped off the Gary Taylor Classic last Saturday in Victoria.The Spectrum Thunder topped Oak Bay in the championship final of the Bay’s own annual classic, a victory which moved the Thunder all the way to No. 1 while Oak Bay dropped to No. […]
Senior boys basketball Top 10s: TBI tourney shows its impact, St. Pat’s the new No. 1 at Triple-A!
The latest B.C. senior boys basketball rankings at all four tiers, released Dec. 13:BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Oak Bay Bays (Victoria) (VI) (LW-1)2 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF) (2)3 West Vancouver Highlanders (VSS) (4)4 Spectrum Thunder (Saanich) (VI) (5)5 St. George’s Saints (Vancouver) (VSS) (6)6 Burnaby South Rebels (FN) (3) 7 Vancouver College Fighting Irish […]
A SUNDAY READ, TBI-STYLE: What’s The Bump? St. Pat’s coach Nap Santos on why it was so important, win or lose, for his Celts to face powerhouse champ Santa Margarita!
TBI SUPER 16 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALSANTA MARGARITA 91 ST. PATRICK’S CELTICS 32LANGLEY — The coach wanted them to feel it, really feel it.He calls it ‘The Bump’ and it’s the bone-jarring part of basketball’s own school of hard knocks.On Saturday, with his team still a little dazed and confused by the emotions which accompanied a 91-32 […]
TBI 2023’s Championship Saturday: Heart of a champion still beating as B.C. 2A champ King George tops STM Knights for Select 16 title!
TBI 2023 SELECT 16 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALKING GEORGE 76 ST. THOMAS MORE 64LANGLEY — Darko Kulic admitted that he barely slept on Friday night.Curiosity got the better of the head coach of the varsity boys basketball team at Vancouver’s King George Secondary after his Dragons moved themselves into the Select 16 championship game against Burnaby’s St. […]
TBI 2023’s Final Four Friday: St. Pat’s attention to detail near clinical as final-minute heroics sink Saints, send Celtics to Super 16 title-game tilt tonight!
LANGLEY — We’re in the early days of another season of B.C. boys high school basketball, yet it’s never to early to hear coaches dissect performance via both passion and attention to detail.Through tired and hoarse post-game whispers Friday night, that’s how two of this province’s most enduring head coaches summed up a heated all-Vancouver […]
TBI 2023’s Final Four Friday: In the midst of three straight showings of dominance, Santa Margarita’s Jonathan Moxie on the biggest difference between SoCal and B.C. high school hoops!
LANGLEY — Many of those who would qualify as longtime high school basketball people in the province of B.C. were calling Friday’s TBI semifinal tilt between SoCal’s Santa Margarita Catholic Eagles and the St. Mary’s Saints of Calgary the Super 16 bracket’s true championship final.If that was indeed the case, it only further magnified the […]