Sparwood's Tanner Barclay scored 83 points in a game this season, the second-highest single-game total in B.C. high school history. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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The Diego of the Kootenays is at the BC’s! On same day Maffia scored 94, Sparwood’s Barclay scored 83! Watch him this week at the LEC!

LANGLEY — If you’re a high school basketball historian, you may remember this past February 9th as the day Oak Bay Bays’ senior guard Diego Maffia set a new B.C. single-game record by scoring 94 points in a 114-88 win over Edmonton’s Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds at Kelowna’s Western Canada Invitational.Yet that very same day, in […]

Steveston London Sharks head coach Mike Stoneburgh has not only done a terrific job getting his team back to the dance, he's got no shortage of entertaining stories to tell. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of UBC athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Tsumura’s ‘Twas the Night Before Tip-Off! Here’s 10 stories to tell on the night before the 2019 B.C. senior boys basketball championships

One more sleep til the The Big Dance tips off. For me, it’s a day to reflect on the greatness of our game, to appreciate the efforts of our coaches and players at all four tiers, and to try offer a sampling of stories which I feel touch on why this time of year is so […]

Jordan Bantog of Holy Cross guards Sir Charles Tupper's Gaurab Acharya. Both players will take to the court with their respective teams for the B.C. senior boys basketball championships which open Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Let March Madness begin! We’ve got all four draws here as B.C. 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A basketball championships begin Wednesday!

LANGLEY — B.C. senior boys varsity basketball is set to step into the spotlight beginning Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre.Bookmark us as your one -stop place to view all four 16-team draws over the days leading up to the start of our four-day run March 6-9!

Clad in pink with the 'We Are One' slogan across their hearts, Sir Charles Tupper Tigers players are standing up for the social and humanitarian causes they feel are most important. (Photo by Sir Charles Tupper Secondary 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Think Pink! Tupper Tigers boys basketball team set to don all-pink ‘We Are One’ uniforms tonight in Mainland AAA final

VANCOUVER — The power of a high school sports team to impact the power of positivity and togetherness in the province of B.C. and in turn, around the globe, may never be stronger than it is tonight (6:15 p.m.) at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

Michael Risi and the Holy Cross Crusaders take a big jump up to No. 1 in the latest Quad-A rankings (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)
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02.27.19 B.C. hoop ranks: Holy Cross claim No. 1 spot in Quad-A after FV title win over Fox, Tupper and Hays hold tops spots

LANGLEY  Big shake-ups abound as zone tournaments continue to re-cast the provincial top 10 at all tiers. Here’s our look at three of four tiers of B.C. senior boys high school basketball rankings:

Burnaby South Rebels players and fans come together in the seconds after their B.C. junior boys title was official at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2019. All Rights Reserved)
Burnaby South's Karn Aujla was a tower of power Monday, scoring 31 points and leading the Rebels into the B.C. JV title game the second time in three seasons. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2019. All Rights Reserved)
R.A. McMath Wildcats' player exult after Elias Khan's last-second basket carried the Richmond team into Tuesday's B.C. JV final against Burnaby South. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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McMath’s equation of ‘Team, Team, Team’ adds up to OT win over No. 2 VC Irish, now it’s No. 1 Burnaby South in B.C. JV finals

LANGLEY — There’s a memorable line from the classic high school basketball movie Hoosiers that seemed especially apropos Monday night as a classic of playoff game unfolded at the Langley Events Centre.

King David's Solly Khalifa is the senior leader of the Vancouver Single-A senior varsity powerhouse set to open play Tuesday at the Lower Mainland championships. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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A new pride in these Lions! For Vancouver’s Single-A King David, adversity steels the foundation of its growing hoops culture

VANCOUVER — Last March, they were a fourth-quarter away from the first B.C. high school championship Final Four appearance in school history.

Guildford Park's Jas Dhudwal (left) does his best to slow hard-driving Arshia Movassaghi of the Heritage Woods Kodiaks in Sunday's Fraser Valley Quad A sudden-elimination B.C. qualifier. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Port Moody’s Kardiac Kodiaks! Fourth-quarter flurry lifts Heritage Woods past G.P. Sabres and into B.C. boys Quad-A Sweet 16

LANGLEY — This season, the Heritage Woods Kodiaks have been a senior boys basketball team which has kept everyone guessing, including themselves and their coaching staff.