Teammate Aaron Tesfagiorgis (right) presents the national championship trophy to injured teammate Diego Maffia following the Vikes' win in the 2025 national final over Calgary. (Photo by Richard Lam property of UBC Athletics 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read, TBI 2025 edition: The path of Victoria’s Diego Maffia from the depths of his 11th-hour torn ACL, to a Vikes’ national title, and now his return to the LEC as Oak Bay’s new head coach!

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 […]

Four seasons ago, back in the 2022 B.C. junior boys final, current SFU Red Leafs post Roko Maric led Vancouver College past Burnaby South in the provincial title game. This season, the Irish and the Rebels are sitting 1-2 to start the new season. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Pacific Academy co-coaches Seth Sorensen (left) and Joel Ashbee address their Breakers during B.C. senior boys basketball Championships last March at the LEC. (Photo by Garrett James property of Langley Events Centre 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

The hoops at the Langley Events Centre await B.C.'s best high school players at the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals next month. (Photo property of Wilson Wong 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Who's playing who at TBI 2025? We've got the full boys and girls brackets right here. Exact game times to follow. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Tsumura Basketball Invitational ’25 draw release: Here are all four senior boys and girls brackets for our 2025 TBI tournaments set to tip off in December at the Langley Event Centre!

LANGLEY — The very best of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball is on its way to the Langley Events Centre over the first two weeks of December.Today, we present the four draws which will make up the Super 16 and Select 16 draws as the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals.All of the precise […]

Here's your complete list of all senior boys and girls high school basketball teams set to take part in TBI 2025 this coming December. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI field finalized: We unveil the 64 boys and girls teams set to take part this December in Tsumura Basketball Invitational 2025!

By Howard Tsumura(VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational is once again proud to help usher in a new season of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball.The 2025-26 campaign will only be in its second week of play when the TBI begins a two-week run at the Langley Events Centre with our senior boys […]

Dorian Glogovac (left) of St. George's and Spectrum's Justin Hinrichsen during the 79th annual B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball championship Final Four game 03.07.25 at the Langley Event Centre’s Arena Bowl. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: The ‘dream-like’ journey of St. George’s B.C. Quad-A MVP Dorian Glogovac! His 53-point Final Four outing sets new senior boys top-tiered provincial championship-side record!

By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsity LettersLANGLEY —  If you watched the way Dorian Glogovac played over the final four games of his high school career earlier this month at the B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball championships, you’d almost swear that he was performing in some kind of dream state.And maybe that isn’t too far from the truth, […]

Spectrum's J Elijah Helman scored 21 points to help his Thunder past Hudson Trood and Nanaimo's Dover Bay Dolphins during the 79th annual B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball championship final game 03.08.25 at the Langley Event Centre’s Arena Bowl. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. BOYS QUAD-A FINAL: How the simple act of plugging players into a zone offence proved revelatory in Spectrum’s historic title win over Dover Bay! Thunder now Island’s first top-tier repeat champs in 51 years!

BY HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — There was no time to stand still.The season-long battle between No. 1 Spectrum and No. 2 Dover Bay, one which ultimately manifested itself for a fifth and final time as the finale to an incredible 2024-25 B.C. senior boys basketball season, never pretended, for even a second, to be anything […]

Windsor head coach Marco Fong talks with his Wolves during the 79th annual B.C. senior boys Triple-A basketball championship final game 03.08.25 at the Langley Event Centre’s Arena Bowl. (Photo by Garrett James property of Langley Events Centre 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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The Mighty Wolves of Windsor: After a 1-3 start to the season, a near-peerless three month, 30-game streak carries North Van’s Triple-A ‘unknowns’ to school’s first-ever B.C. senior boys championship hoops title!

By HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — The origin story of the mighty Wolves of Windsor might best be told along the lines of some script in development for the next big supernatural teen drama series.Set amongst the towering Douglas Fir, within a secret den somewhere amongst the vast expanse of North Vancouver’s Lynn Canyon Park, a […]

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Wait, you must! The old guy at Varsity Letters needs a day of rest! B.C. Triple- and Double-A boys championship game stories are on the way

By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY — Spend a couple of weeks sitting at the press tables of South Court, Centre Court and Arena Bowl at the Langley Events Centre and the idea of returning home to some much-missed creature comforts on a full-time basis is enough to make an old scribe start to yawn, sit down […]