High School Boys Basketball

Burnaby South's Sasha Vujisic (left) battles for a loose ball with Mt. Baker's Jeff Lalach during opening round action at the 2020 B.C. Quad-A tournament at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved) (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION Quad-A boys Day 1: Varsity Letters gives you live game day reports and photos of all eight opening-round games!

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ALL STORIES BY HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Welcome to the opening day of play here at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Please continue to check back on this posting throughout the day for updates as we wind our way through the eight-game sudden elimination Sweet 16 bracket.

Two generation of UBC point guards, fifth-year senior Jadon Cohee and head coach Kevin Hanson, have had a meeting of the minds en route to the team's three game sweep through the conference playoffs. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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U Sports Final 8 preview: Kevin Hanson, a former UBC point guard, steps out of his coaching box to bring out best in ‘Birds floor general Jadon Cohee!

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VANCOUVER — There is a little part of Kevin Hanson the player, who still remembers what it was like, some 33 years ago, to be part of a team which was able to catch lightning in a bottle.Today, he’s 20 seasons into his journey as the head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds, but back in […]

B.C. high school boys basketball historian Ken Winslade, whose carefully catalogued archives make up the majority of the BCHSBBA's 75th anniversary hoops museum at the Langley Events Centre, poses in front of the team photo of his own high school team, New Westminster's 1956 B.C. champion Lester Pearson Mikes. (Photo by Gary Ahuja property of Langley Events Centre 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. boys high school basketball museum opens at LEC! Photos, memorabilia celebrate 75 years of provincial champions

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LANGLEY — Fans making the rounds at the Langley Event Centre beginning Wednesday at the B.C. Boys High School Basketball Championships will get a chance to see the province’s best teams in action at four different tiers of competition.Yet in this, the Diamond Anniversary of the B.C.’s most tradition-laden and documented provincial championship tournament, there […]

Twenty years after leading SMUS to the B.C. AAA title, Canadian sports icon Steve Nash holds court once again, this time with 24 others on the list of the 25 greatest players in the B.C. championship tournament history. (Photos property of B.C High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Wow, the ultimate GOAT list! The B.C. Boys Championship Tournament’s 25 Greatest High School Basketball Players of All Time!

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LANGLEY — Welcome to the list to top all lists in the world of B.C. boys high school basketball. With the 75th birthday of the heralded classic set to tip off Wednesday, a special committee struck by the B.C. High School Boys Basketball Association to celebrate its diamond anniversary has produced its list of the B.C. […]

G.W. Graham's Jude Hall (centre) experiences the hands-on defence of MEI's Jayden Cousins (left) during East Valley 3A zone final last month at the LEC. Also on the scene for MEI is Patrick Warrell. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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G.W. Graham ready to bear down! After four Final Fours and four Elite 8’s, Chilliwack’s Grizz set sights on four wins and a B.C. AAA title

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LANGLEY — A dozen games does not a season make, yet in the case of Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham Grizzlies (23-9), everything about its most recent 12 games of this season seem a portent to their week ahead as one of the favourites at the B.C. senior boys Triple A basketball championships.The Grizzlies have been one […]

Abbotsford's Karn Brar (right) is guarded by Yale's Reid Lowen during the East Valley Quad-A zone championship game Feb. 23 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys Championships 2020: Who’s in the toughest quadrant across all four tiers? It’s Abby-Terry Fox, Van College-Fleetwood Park

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LANGLEY — The toughest overall quadrant across all four tiers of competition at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships belongs to a quartet of teams who have been provincially ranked or owned honourable mention status for the entire season.

Whose's the greatest? Ron Putzi (left) and the 1988 Richmond Colts, or the Brothers Kazanowski and the 1978 Nanaimo Islanders. (Photos property of B.C High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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THE 75th ANNIVERSARY FINALE: Nanaimo ’78 and Richmond ’88 both brought depth, talent and innovation to the court! So which team was best?

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LANGLEY — By this time next week, we will have crowned B.C’s. 75th top-tiered senior boys high school basketball champions.

Members of Richmond's Steveston-London Sharks gathered as a team Sunday to see where they would be slotted in the B.C. Triple A bracket during the LEC's annual draw show live stream. (Photo courtesy SLSS athletics)
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Sweet 16 bracket mania arrives: Your one-stop location to study all four 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball provincial championship draws!

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LANGLEY — We’ve got all four of the B.C. boys senior varsity high school championship draws released Sunday  right here in one placeIn order, you’ll find the B.C. senior boys 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A tournament draws.Under each draw, we’ve provided a handy URL to click on to receive a higher quality version of each […]

The St. Thomas More Knights just wanted to make the B.C. tournament. On Sunday, they added the first-ever Sea-to-Sky zone title to their cache and didn't hold back their joy. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Ok, so where did these Knights come from? Internal belief in face of mounting losses helped St. Thomas More earn a most unexpected BC AAA berth!

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LANGLEY — If you had simply counted up the W’s and the L’s along the will-testing 3-10 stretch which Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Knights navigated over the first six weeks of 2020, you wouldn’t have believed your eyes this past Sunday afternoon at the Langley Events Centre.

Back in December at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational, Karter Fry and Victoria's SMUS Blue Jags gave DJ Laconsay (left), Matt Dunkerley and the rest of Vancouver's Tupper Tigers a solid push before faltering. This week, Vancouver Island MVP Fry and the Jags move into 3A No, 8, not far behind the No. 4-ranked Tigers. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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02.25.20 edition FINAL Varsity Letters B.C. boys high school basketball rankings: In the 11th hour, Oak Bay, STM and SMUS all crash the Top 10 party

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Welcome to the final B.C. senior boys basketball rankings of the season.Quad-A and Triple-A rankings will be joined by both Double-A and Single-A by Wednesday evening.BOYSQUAD A (records, rankings reflect games played Feb. 18-25. Records indicate games against B.C. competition only)1 Burnaby South Rebels (31-2) (LW-1)Last week — Won all three games to finish first […]