Reports from Friday night’s two TBI Super 16 semifinals are here:RIVERSIDE 68 SEAQUAM 64By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Ari Brown is just starting to show us who she is supposed to become on the basketball court.Yet there was Riverside’s 6-foot Grade 9 starter, in the heat of a TBI Super 16 Final Four fourth-quarter drive of […]
High School
TBI 2025: Select 16 draw hits Final Four Friday! Read our game reports here!
Check back here throughout the evening for game reports from our two Select 16 Final Four matchups.PITT MEADOWS 64 CENTENNIAL 47By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Jason Boyes has a lot more multi-sports athletes than he does fulltime basketball devotees on his roster, yet the head coach of the Putt Meadows Marauders is not complaining.In fact, when big […]
FINAL: TBI 2025 Super 16 Quarterfinal game reports are here! Tsumura Basketball Invitational wraps up Day2 !
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the girls 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitational Super 16 bracket.Here are your four quarterfinal championship game reports.SUPER 16TOP SIDE DRAWHOLY CROSS 83 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 64By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — ‘Deep and dangerous’ is a basketball descriptor that tends to get overused, but not when you’re talking about Surrey’s Holy Cross […]
FINAL: TBI 2025 Select 16 Quarterfinal game reports are here! Tsumura Basketball Invitational wraps up Day 2!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the girls 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitational Select 16 bracket.We’ve gone final with all four game reports from our quarterfinal round contests.SELECT 16TOP SIDE DRAWFERNIE 45 SIR CHARLES TUPPER 29By IAN FRENCH(Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — There’s the calm before the storm, but what happens after? Well, for the […]
12.10.25 edition: The latest B.C. boys Top 10 basketball rankings! Fox, GWG, King George top climbers!
LANGLEY — Last week’s boys TBI had its expected impact on the three largest tiers of B.C. boys basketball, yet the top three at both Quad-A and Triple-A weathered the storm.Here’s a look at the latest Top 10s from all four tiers:BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF) (LW-1)2 Dover Bay Dolphins […]
TBI 2025: We’ve gone final! All eight Day 1 game reports from girls Super 16 bracket at Tsumura Basketball Invitational are here!
LANGLEY — Day 1 of the girls 2025 TBI Super 16 tournament is in the books.Hope you enjoy all eight of our game reports here!— Howard Tsumura TOP HALF DRAWQUAD AARGYLE 80 JOHNSTON HEIGHTS 57By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — The Argyle Pipers have so much talent throughout the Grade 11-12 spectrum within its senior girls basketball program, […]
TBI 2025: We’ve gone final! All eight Day 1 game reports from girls Select 16 bracket at Tsumura Basketball Invitational are here!
LANGLEY — Day 1 of the girls 2025 TBI Super 16 tournament is in the books.Hope you enjoy all eight of our game reports here!Our special thanks today to Ian French, Wilson Wong and Gary Ahuja for their work, without which this report would not be possible!— Howard TsumuraGIRLS SELECT 16QUAD AVALLEYVIEW 48 ARGYLE GOLD […]
12.09.25 edition: With TBI tip-off Wednesday, here’s your B.C. girls high school basketball Top 10 rankings!
LANGLEY — With the 2025 girls TBI beginning a four-day run Wednesday, keep these rankings close at hand as you follow both the Super 16 and Select 16 brackets at the Langley Events Centre.GIRLSQUAD-A1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-2) 2 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (4) 3 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (1)4 G.W. Graham Grizzlies […]
“Small town but gritty” Fernie Falcons make their Tsumura Basketball Invitational debut Wednesday with experienced, tall-timbered line-up hoping it’s a dress rehearsal for February provincials!
By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — The Fernie Falcons are soaring due west to the Langley Events Centre to start their 2025-26 season.In past seasons, the normal practice for the Double-A school from the the extreme southeast corner of the province, would be to board a bus and head out to all points east of the Alberta […]
A Sunday Read, TBI Girls 2025: At intersection of life and sports, Tupper’s Elisa Wong taps into the pulse of human connection!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caVANCOUVER — It was 15 years ago, in my past writing life as a reporter at The Province newspaper, that I first had the opportunity to talk to a young teacher and basketball coach who was just starting to make a difference with the student-athletes in her East Vancouver neighbourhood.Back then, at the […]