LANGLEY — Top 10 time is back.The B.C. School Sports provincial pre-season high school Top 10 rankings for senior boys basketball have just been released, and as expected, its two largest tiers reflect the respective geographical strengths of two of the province’s time-honoured regions.At Quad-A, three of the top four spots are held by Vancouver […]
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TBI 2024: All four tournament brackets, complete with full game times, for December’s boys and girls Tsumura Basketball Invitationals at the Langley Events Centre!
(NOTICE TO ALL TEAMS — As of Sunday, Dec. 1 we have made slight alterations to all four boys and girls TBI draws, with Friday semifinals for both the Super 16 and Select 16 draws being staged consecutively in the same gymnasium. Please note this change to the schedule). Basketball fans, you can start to plan […]
TBI Boys 2024: Who’s playing who in both 16-team draws at Tsumura Basketball Invitational? We’ve got the full draws right here for the LEC’s preseason spectacular!
LANGLEY — It’s time to start the official countdown to the tip-off at the 2024 boys and girls Tsumura Basketball Invitationals, once again set to run front and centre over the first two weeks of December at the Langley Events Centre.Today, we will present the draws for the boys TBI (Dec. 4-7) which includes both […]
B.C. boys All-Star Saturday: We’ve got full rosters for all four teams as St. Thomas More hosts boys hoops finale April 20!
By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — A galaxy of the some of the best graduating talent in the B.C. senior boys basketball Class of 2024 will gather at Burnaby’s St. Thomas More over the weekend.The occasion?None other than All-Star Saturday.Mark down Saturday, April 20 at STMC’s spacious gymnasium, located at 7450 12th Ave., Burnaby.The Single-A vs. Double-A […]
BOYS TBI 2024: The teams are now set for the Tsumura Basketball Invitational Dec. 4-7! It’s a 32-team affair with Super 16 and Select 16 pools!
LANGLEY — We’re just over a month past another thrilling season of B.C. senior boys and girls basketball provincial championships here at the Langley Events Centre.Now, it’s time to put a stamp on the upcoming 2024-25 season.Today we’ve got the 32 teams which will make up the boys field in the Super 16 and Select […]
Boys 4-A final: They came out of nowhere in a hurry! But Spectrum Thunder’s B.C. title win over Tammy bubbled over with ties to its past, brilliant skill and young coach who brought out the best in everyone!
By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — There are so many paths to traverse and rivers to cross in the quest of a B.C. senior boys top-tiered high school basketball championship that the journey of virtually every single prior winner is rife with clues… the breadcrumbs have been easy to find.They are kind of like the staples on […]
Boys 3-A championship: No words could be more true than ‘It’s not a race, it’s a marathon’ for Dover Bay! Dolphins’ coach Seaman, MVP Linder put trust in grand plan in B.C. title-game win over MEI Eagles!
LANGLEY — Explore the deep and voluminous lore of B.C. senior boys basketball history, and a common thread of its early days often times centres around the good, old-fashioned discipline of running.As I grew into the high school school reporter’s beat at The Province newspaper in the early 1990s, I heard the tales of teams […]
B.C. 2-A championship final: Cavaliers trey magnifique! With splash after splash, high-volume, high-percentage threes carry Collingwood to crown!
BY GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – Seeded No. 3 and deadly with the three.The Collingwood Cavaliers rode a red-hot afternoon from behind the arc to a 71-64 win over No. 4 seed Brentwood College in the Double A final at the B.C. senior boys high school championships at the Langley Events Centre.It was […]
Boys 1A championship final: Upset bid earn’s crowd’s rapt attention, but Haida Gwaii’s Breakers fall in the end to dynastic Flames of Unity Christian!
NO. 1 UNITY CHRISTIAN 74 NO. 6 GIDGALANG KUUYAS NAAY 71BY GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – It was going to be a Cinderella story for the ages in the B.C. senior boys Single A basketball final at Langley Events Centre.But, alas, there would be no dramatic, Hoosiers-like finish on Saturday as the gutsy, […]
03.08.24 Day 3 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior boys Quad-A Friday Final Four semifinal basketball championships!
Hello B.C. boys high school basketball fans.Final Four Friday has arrived.Myself and our Varsity Letters’ team of writers will be bringing you full coverage of all eight semifinals form the 1, 2, 3 and 4A tiers tonight.Remember that whatever tier you’re reading about here, all you need to do is go there main page at […]