Princess Margaret head coach Karmin Dhaliwal, in his first senior varsity season at the helm of the Lions, has led the team to the B.C. championships for the first time since 1977. (Photo property of Princess Margaret Athletics 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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A Big Dance dandy! After 45 years away, a pride of Princess Margaret Lions follows the lead of its special head coach to a berth in B.C. boys Triple-A tournament!

SURREY — Records to verify the following have not been kept, yet as the B.C. senior boys basketball championships prepare to bed down for a final sleep before its 2021-22 re-start finale tips off Wednesday morning at the Langley Events Centre, you only need to collect the facts to understand that something very special has […]

Driving to the hoop with the 1956 Lester Pearson high school team in New Westminster is the legendary Ken Winslade. (Photo property of Ken Winslade 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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‘A Hoops Journey’ welcomes Ken Winslade: The caretaker and keeper of the flame for B.C. boys high school hoops joins the podcast crew on eve of tourney tip-off!

LANGLEY — The journey that the B.C. boys high school basketball championships have taken to become the annual showcase it is these days under the bright lights at the Langley Events Centre is one filled with some of the most moments in provincial sports history.Yet the chief reason the game has been able to retain […]

Centennial's K.C. Ibekwe leads his No. 2-seeded Centennial Centaurs into the 16-team B.C. Quad A championships on Wednesday. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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March Madness is here! Your one-stop home for all four B.C. senior boys basketball championship draw is here!

LANGLEY — The final four days of the B.C. high school basketball season are upon us, and the action tips off Wednesday as all four tiers of the provincial boys championships invade the Langley Events Centre.From now until then, make this your quickest reference point for all four draws, as per their release on Sunday.QUADRUPLE […]

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B.C. High School Grade 9 Boys Provincial 3-on-3 championships! It’s free! How to sign up your team for a Saturday tip-off! in Surrey

LANGLEY — In years past, it was the big tradition on Saturday mornings at the top-tiered B.C. senior boys high school basketball championships.This season, the tradition continues for younger players and their is no cost or entry fee to register.We’re talking about the B.C. High School Grade 9 Boys Provincial 3-on-3 championships.It’s open to any […]

Vancouver College's post Roko Maric proved to be just shy of untouchable on Tuesday night at the LEC en route to being the MVP of the 2022 B.C. junior boys basketball championships as the Irish topped Burnaby South to finish the season a perfect 31-0. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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With a reach that extended far and wide, MVP Roko Maric helps Van College Fighting Irish top Burnaby South Rebels for its first B.C. junior title in a decade!

LANGLEY — Roko Maric’s outstretched arms were a huge part of the post-game celebration Tuesday evening on the court at the Langley Events Centre.But truth be told, the bigger story was the presence the outstretched arms of Vancouver College’s 6-foot-8 Grade 10 forward had over all four quarters of the final game of the 2021-22 […]

St. George's Josh Coleman is guarded by Handsworth's Tate Christiansen. Vancouver's Saints moved into the No. 1 spot in the Quad-A Top rankings as the VSS zone champs. Meanwhile, the province's toughest zone brought a premature end to the Royals' season. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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BC boys high school basketball rankings 03.01.22 edition: March is here, and with it, a pair of new No. 1’s in St. George’s and Lambrick Park!

LANGLEY — Topsy-turvy times on the eve of the provincial championships.What better way to get set for the finale to a challenging but exciting re-start in 2021-22 for B.C. boys high school basketball.There are new No. 1’s at Quad-A and Double-A, and perhaps the most overall shifting we seen all season.Here’s the complete look for […]

Vancouver College's Cole Pryputsch (centre, 11) grabs a rebound in between teammate Aidan Lear and Oak Bay's Tyler Browne on Monday at the LEC. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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VC’s Fighting Irish face Burnaby South for B.C. junior boys crown on Tuesday! Rival head coaches may be buddies, but usual hoops phone chatter now likely put on hold!

LANGLEY — A pair of B.C. junior boys basketball coaches who discovered a while back how much they love to engage each other in deep discussion of the game have been making a habit of chatting over the phone a few nights each week during the season.That those two happen to be Vancouver College Fighting […]

From ice cold to red hot, Abbotsford Panthers' Grade 11 star Dilveer Randhawa was the stretch-drive difference maker in his team's Eastern Valley Quad-A championship final win over Langley's Walnut Grove Gators on Sunday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Dilveer ditches his doldrums! Randhawa comes alive in fourth as Abby Panthers top Walnut Grove Gators for Eastern Valley Quad-A title spoils!

LANGLEY — Whatever basketball’s version of the all-points-bulletin is, Abbotsford Panthers’ head coach Brent Ciochetti was wishing he could have put one out Sunday evening at the Langley Events Centre for his star Grade 11 forward Dilveer Randhawa.In its tense and spirited clash with Langley’s Walnut Grove Gators for the Eastern Valley Quad-A championship title, […]

MVP Braeden MacDonald (left) of Chilliwack's G.W. Graham Grizzlies steps up on defence against MEI's Connor Friesen during Eastern Valley senior boys AAA final played Feb. 27 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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This linebacker tackles hoops just fine! G.W. Graham post Braeden MacDonald scores 23 points, earns MVP nod as Grizz top MEI’s Eagles for 3A Eastern Valley title!

LANGLEY — Through the flooding and through the pandemic, Braeden MacDonald has persevered with a smile on his face.On Sunday, the dream season for G.W. Graham’s 6-foot-4, 200-pound Grade 11 linebacker/tight end/power post just kept on getting better.MacDonald, who in December helped the Grizzlies win a Subway Bowl senior varsity Quad-A football title at B.C. […]

Two of B.C. junior basketball's rough-and-tumble best came together Sunday in the provincial quarterfinals at the LEC as West Vancouver's plaid-adorned Zeyad Ahmed collides with Burnaby South's Llorikk Gutierrez. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Jr. Boys Elite 8: Burnaby South shows plenty of shine as roster’s depth steps up to earn win over West Van and berth in Monday’s Final Four!

LANGLEY — What’s a sure-fire way to get Burnaby South junior boys basketball coach Rupi Dahia to shrug his shoulder?Simple: Ask him who the stars of his team are.“That’s the key thing about this team… we don’t really have that ‘best’ player,” Dahia confessed Sunday after his No. 3-seeded Rebels made every key shot they […]