LANGLEY — It all came down to one last-chance-to-the-big-dance moment for 10 B.C. senior girls basketball teams on Tuesday.With 27 of the 32 total teams already determined for the B.C. senior girls Quad-A and Triple-A championship finals, five sudden-elimination games took the spotlight Tuesday.The five winners will be plugged into their respective draws as part […]
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On the road to BC girls Sweet 16 tip-off: First, it’s five Tuesday sudden-elimination games, then Wednesday’s 7 p.m. bracket reveal show on TFSETV.ca!
LANGLEY — It’s been an incredible regular season in the B.C. senior girls high school ranks, and all of that had led to two more days of final prep ahead of the Big Dance.So, before the B.C. junior, and senior 2A, 3A and 4A championships tip off a four-day run at the Langley Event Centre […]
A Sunday Read: She’s the 1% of the 1%, but huge odds can’t stop Okanagan Mission’s NCAA Div. 1-bound Kanani Coon from fulfilling her promise both on the court, and within her First Nations community!
KELOWNA — Kanani Coon never thought about just how heavily the odds were stacked against her.They were, after all, based solely on numbers, and any basketball player worth their jumper knows that numbers never reveal entire truths.Still, these were the kinds of facts and figures so definitive in nature that they seemed to be telling […]
Burnaby Central’s three-point reign proves too much for Rapids, No. 3 Wildcats upset No. 1 Rapids behind 26 points from MVP Chopra in Fraser North Quad-A title tilt!
BURNABY — Call it the wow factor of the Wildcats from Burnaby Central.Grade 11 forward Ankita Chopra’s baseline trey 40 seconds into the proceedings signalled the first of the team’s 15 three-point buckets on the night as the No. 3-ranked ’Cats, wire-to-wire leaders, beat the No. 1 Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam 74-61 to capture […]
B.C. boys ranks 02.15.23 edition: All hail Sea-to-Sky hoops! West Van, Kits surge to give VSS five of Quad-A’s Top 10 teams!
LANGLEY — Two of B.C. high school basketball’s tradition-laden top-tiered programs flashed a little something-something, hinting that, late in the campaign, they have each uncovered a little DNA of the yesteryear variety.The West Vancouver Highlanders, 73-70 regular-season winners back on May 7 over its cross-zone rivals from North Vancouver, the Handsworth Royals, carried that momentum […]
B.C. girls Top 10 hoops rankings 02.13.23 edition: Quad-A’s Riverside, Walnut Grove, Bby Central and Yale form an early, formidable Final Four!
LANGLEY — If you go by the pollsters provincial point tallies, we’ve got one heck of a Final Four brewing on the road to the B.C. senior girls basketball championships tipping off March 1 at the Langley Events Centre.PoCo’s Riverside Rapids, continue to hold down top spot, yet by only four poll points (71-to-67) over […]
Dover Bay boys basketball 2022-23: Inspired by the legacy of its 2007 B.C. champs, Nanaimo’s Triple-A No. 2-ranked Dolphins put in the hard work needed to make a March Madness splash at the LEC!
Hoops karma is hard to actually describe, but in the early days of February, all you need to do is look at the B.C. senior boys basketball rankings to know that the 2023 Vancouver Island brand is as richly flavourful as anything you’re choosing to spread across your morning toast.From Victoria to Mill Bay to […]
B.C. boys hoop ranks 02.08.23 edition: Semiahmoo tops VC Irish to regain No. 1 in Quad-A ranks; STM, Tupper, Westsyde, Nisga’a week’s big climbers!
LANGLEY — The 48th edition of Kelowna Secondary’s Western Canada Invitational has altered the script at the top of the B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball rankings as the post-season begins.Semiahmoo’s Thunderbirds, the preseason No. 1, moved back into the penthouse suite of the province’s largest tier, getting a game-high 30 points from forward Cole Bekkering […]
Savouring the season! As B.C. high school hoops playoffs begin, we appreciate the game through the eyes of Lord Byng coach Kevin Sandher who says: “The days are long, but the years go quick!”
VANCOUVER — For everything the B.C. high school sports world has endured over the past number of seasons, there is once again, thankfully, that feeling of normalcy… something that comes with the first fully-unencumbered regular-season of basketball since 2019-20.It’s made the simple act of moving from league contests to those of the post-season variety something […]
King George’s Dionycius Bakare: A study in humility and gravity-defying hops, Dragons’ Grade 10 star already gliding in rare air!
VANCOUVER — Maybe the best way to describe the daily development of one of the most exciting young talents in recent B.C. boys basketball history is to say that Dionycius Bakare is going through two growth spurts at the same time.By the most standard of measures, the prodigiously-talented Grade 10 guard with Vancouver’s King George […]