Burnaby South's Tyler Crossley is surrounded by St. George's Saints during second-day quarterfinal action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Thursday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023 Super 16 Day 2: It’s quarterfinals day here at the LEC and we’ve got the complete scoop from all four games!

LANGLEY — We’ve gone final in the Super 16 bracket!Friday’s Final Four now set.6:15 p.m. — Calgary-St. Mary’s vs. Santa Margarita Catholic7:45 p.m. — St. George’s vs. St. Patrick’sSUPER 16QUARTERFINALS (all games at South Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUAD ASANTA MARGARITA 83 SPECTRUM 49LANGLEY — When Justin Hinrichsen returns to the Langley Events Centre on Friday with […]

Heritage Woods' Afu Bullock (right) tests the wingspan of Wellington's Jackson Peters during second-day quarterfinal action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Thursday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023 Select 16 Day 2: It’s quarterfinals day here at the LEC and we’ve got the complete scoop from all four games!

LANGLEY — We’ve gone dark at 1 a.m. Final two game reports will be posted in the morning!SELECT 16(All games at Centre Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUAD ASIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 63 NORTH DELTA 57LANGLEY — They missed out on a berth to the provincial championships last season and there is no trace of them to be found […]

G.W. Graham Grizzlies' Lincoln Larson (left) and Christian Beck close in on North Delta's Gurdas Dillon during opening day action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI SELECT 16 DRAW: Day 1 is complete at the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational and we’ve got all eight game-by-game reports!

LANGLEY — Day 1 of the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational is now complete.Enjoy our game reports!SELECT 16(All games at South Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUAD ANORTH DELTA 66  G.W. GRAHAM 50LANGLEY — The North Delta Huskies are offering a pretty big early clue as to what kind of team they aspire to be this season.And if the […]

Lord Byng's Eli Mullen (left) tries to get a step on Walnut Grove's Hayden Talaba during opening day action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI SUPER 16 DRAW: Day 1 is complete at the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational and we’ve got all eight game-by-game reports!

LANGLEY — We’ve gone final on Day 1 of the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.Here’s all eight game reports with photos.To insure you haven’t missed a new report across right to the bottom as games are listed to mirror their place in the draw and are not ordered by start times.SUPER 16(All games at Centre Court)TOP […]

SoCal's Santa Margarita Eagles will open play at the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Wednesday (7:45 p.m.) against Burnaby's Byrne Creek Bulldogs. (Photo courtesy Santa Margarita athletics 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Boys 2023: Santa Margarita Catholic’s Eagles fly north! Klay Thompson’s alma mater brings pulse of SoCal hoops to Tsumura Basketball Invitational! Day 1 debut Wednesday vs. Byrne Creek!

LANGLEY — Everything about their world seems soaked in culture and the history of SoCal basketball.Check out this week’s Los Angeles Times’ Top 25 boys high school rankings for its own Southland region, and there are the Santa Margarita Catholic Eagles sitting at No. 19.Do a little surfing through your favourite search engine and it’s […]

Simon Fraser Red Leafs Tate Christiansen (left) and Matthys Van Bylandt, a pair of North Vancouverites and Handsworth Secondary graduates, have an emotional and energetic surge to the Simon Fraser Red Leafs in their redshirt-freshman seasons on the hill. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Simon Fraser athletics 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Rookie Red Leafs rise to new challenges atop Burnaby Mountain! Ex-Handsworth stars Van Bylandt, Christiansen lead with work ethic while their talents begin to shine for Simon Fraser!

BURNABY — A mere three minutes of viewing may not be enough to constitute any kind of a scientific sample size.Yet if you were among the small crowd gathered earlier this month for the CCA Div. 2 Canadian Tip-Off Classic at the Langley Events Centre, you might have at least developed a pretty strong hunch […]

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Tsumura Basketball 2023: Follow your favourite TBI teams with our complete four-day brackets for all 64 of our boys and girls entrants!

LANGLEY — This past week we unveiled the opening-day draws in each of our four separate 16-team boys and girls pools at next month’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational senior boys and girls tournaments at the Langley Events Centre.Today, we’ve got the complete Wednesday-through-Saturday brackets for all four divisions of play.BOYS (Dec. 6-9)SUPER 16Click on link below […]

They're back! Kelowna's Nash Semeniuk, is pictured here being guarded by Claremont's Nico Vickers (left) and Dak Amor during on Day 1 of last March's B.C. Quad-A championship. All three rising seniors are on tap to take part in TBI 2023 Dec. 6-9 at the LEC. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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BOYS DRAWS-TSUMURA BASKETBALL 2023: Who’s playing who in Round 1 of our Super 16 and Select 16 pools Dec. 6-9 at the LEC!

LANGLEY — Start the countdown to the 2023 edition of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational senior boys basketball tournament Dec. 6-9 at the Langley Events Centre.After months of planning, we’re thrilled to unveil the two brackets of 16 which will comprise the 32 teams taking part in this year’s festivities.Competing in both the Super 16 and […]

Trinity Western's David Mutabazi (right) dribbled past Ajay Mitchell of Santa Barbara on Tuesday at the Langley Events Centre as the Canada West's Spartans played host to the visiting, NCAA Div. 1 Gauchos. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters. com. All Rights Reserved)
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A SUNDAY READ: Tsumura on the joys of summertime basketball, NCAA Div. 1 foreign tours, and the road-less-travelled path of Trinity Western’s electric David Mutabazi!

LANGLEY — The best part of ageing into an ‘old’ basketball writer?For me, it’s that rare but reassured feeling I get, when against any reasonable expectation, a player straps the fortunes of his team on his back, and in this case almost carries them to an improbable upset.That is the place I found myself this […]

Frank Linder (right) and the rest of Nanaimo's Dover Bay Dolphins put on a show at the provincial tournament last March. The rising Grade 11 and the rest of the Dolphins make a Langley return in December for the 2023 TBI at the LEC. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI BOYS 2023: Our 32-team Tsumura Basketball boys unveil includes BC biggies, plus Cali’s Santa Margarita & Calgary-St. Mary’s, all at the LEC!

LANGLEY — The vast majority of B.C.’s very best teams will once again take to the court when the boys 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational tips off Dec. 6-9 at the Langley Events Centre.Yet as part of our latest December classic, which this year features two distinctly separate 16-team fields, we’re also thrilled to announce a […]