LANGLEY — Diego Maffia never thought basketball could break his heart.Once, in his Grade 12 season (2018-19) with Victoria’s Oak Bay Bays, he poured home 94 points in a 114-88 win over Edmonton’s Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds, the greatest single-game scoring performance in B.C. boys high school basketball history.And over a university career with his hometown […]
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B.C. Junior Boys Preseason Top 10 ranks: VC, Bby South 1-2 with Mulgrave and Abby Traditional completing an early Final 4!
LANGLEY — Some traditional powers, and some interesting interlopers come together in the first Top 10 ranking for B.C. junior boys high school basketball.Coaches, you can send your scores by either of these two methods:Google DocsSend an email to jrboysprovs@gmail.comTOP 10 #1(Nov. 21, 2025)JUNIOR BOYS1 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (VSS)2 Burnaby South Rebels (FN)3 Mulgrave […]
B.C. Boys Top 10 preseason basketball rankings! Tamanawis, St. Pats, Pacific Academy, SJS all top their tiers as the March to madness in 2025-26 now set for official tip-off!
LANGLEY — Welcome to preseason B.C. boys high school basketball rankings for the 2025-26 season.We here at Varsity Letters will be with you every step of the way throughout the season, providing up-to-date Top 10 rankings from B.C. School Sports.BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF)2 Kelowna Owls (TOK)3 Vancouver College Fighting […]
B.C. Girls Top 10 preseason basketball rankings! Argyle, Sa-Hali, Holy Cross top their tiers as the March to madness in 2025-26 now set for official tip-off!
LANGLEY — Welcome to B.C. School Sports preseason B.C. girls Top 10 high school basketball rankings for the 2025-26 season.We here at Varsity Letters will be with you every step of the way throughout the season, providing up-to-date Top 10 rankings from around the province each week.GIRLSQUAD-A1 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS)2 Seaquam Seahawks (North […]
Buchanan Cup 2025: As UBC beats Simon Fraser in the 38th edition of the ‘Crosstown Clash’, we celebrate the Brothers Maric as a symbol of the game’s enduring ties to the B.C. hoops community!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caBURNABY MOUNTAIN — No word yet if Toni Maric ever let the Buchanan Cup out of his hands on Saturday night after he and his UBC Thunderbirds topped the host Simon Fraser Red Leafs 66-54 in the 38th edition of the crosstown basketball brouhaha.Who knows? Maybe the ‘Birds 6-foot-8 fifth-year forward took it […]
Q-&-A with Tayla Jackson: As she finishes her first round of chemotherapy, former Brookswood, SFU hoops star, 28, speaks to her battle, and to the truth of hardcourt lessons worth leaning on!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — If you’re a member of B.C.’s tight-knit basketball community, you may well already have heard the gist of her story.Two weeks ago, former Brookswood Secondary and Simon Fraser hoops standout Tayla Jackson wasn’t feeling herself.At the time, with the start of hoops season just around the corner, she was in the […]
TBI 2025 Tip-off times now set: Complete four-day Tsumura Basketball Invitational brackets for boys and girls Super 16 and Select 16 pools now posted ahead of December tip-offs!
LANGLEY — Let the true official countdown to two weeks of high school basketball madness at the Langley Events Centre officially begin.Today we present the two seniors boys and two senior girls draws which make up the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals set run over the first two full weekends of December, beginning with the boys […]
With poise and big-game flair, Victoria’s 18-year-old point guard Avery Geddes delivers in Vikes’ upset win over No. 4 UBC! Former SMUS star, BC 2-A MVP plays above her U SPORTS rookie status!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caVANCOUVER — When you perform within basketball’s most sacred space, you earn the most special moniker of having played like you were ‘unconscious’.On its own, hitting 6-of-8 three-pointers in a game doesn’t necessarily qualify as such, yet it certainly makes a case for itself when so early in your university career, just weeks […]
SFU Women’s Hoops: As its new team identity takes root and Red Leafs prep for California weekend, junior guard Rachel Loukes confident ‘blue collar’ mindset is something team can lean on!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — On the eve of her team’s participation in the season-opening Canadian Tip-Off Classic earlier this month, Rachel Loukes thought long and hard about how her Simon Fraser Red Leafs were being labelled as a working-class basketball team.And when the three-day event concluded on Nov. 2 at the Langley Events Centre following […]
A SUNDAY READ: UBC stuns No. 1-ranked, defending national champ Victoria, snapping Vikes’ 33-game win streak with stoic resilience and improved prowess in the paint!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caVANCOUVER — Was the biggest surprise on Friday night the way in which the UBC Thunderbirds turned in one of their most inspired and complete team performances in recent memory en route to defeating the No. 1-ranked team in the country?Or was it, upon hearing the final horn sound in its 93-87 win […]