PORT COQUITLAM — Victoria’s finest — the Quad-A No. 1 Spectrum Thunder and No. 3 Oak Bays Bays — will be an island unto themselves Saturday night when the championship game of the 2025 Jonathon Taylor Terry Fox Legal Beagle tips off at 7 p.m.The Vancouver Island rivals each played their best basketball in the […]
High School Boys Basketball
01.08.25: B.C. senior boys basketball rankings: Quad-A Tammy, Kelowna line up behind Vancouver Island’s Big Three!
LANGLEY — The Vancouver Island threesome remains atop Quad-A as the new year opens in B.C. boys high school basketball.They are joined by Surrey’s Tamanawis Wildcats and the Kelowna Owls within the top five of this week’s latest Top 10.Meanwhile, the top six teams at the Triple-, Double- and Single-A tiers all home court in […]
12.22.24 edition: This week’s SRS B.C. senior boys basketball Top 50 rankings!
We’re back with Week 2 of featuring BCBBallMetrics.ca’s SRS Top 50 for B.C. boys basketball’s Quad-A through Single-A.Our thanks once again to Asher Mayan for providing this unique look! For a complete explanation, refer to last week’s debut rankings.And don’t forget that the official B.C. senior boys Top 10 rankings will appear right here at […]
12.18.24: B.C. senior boys basketball rankings: Top fours hold the fort at all four tiers!
LANGLEY — Three weeks into the new season, and the province’s tier leaders looked to have settled into an early groove.That’s just another way of saying that last week’s top four in each classification remained the same, including the precise 1-2-3-4 order in Quad-, Triple- and Double-A.The lone change among that quartet?Vancouver’s SJS, swapped places […]
B.C. Boys Basketball SRS ranking system formula Top 50 groups all four tiers for interesting new look
LANGLEY — The B.C. senior boys basketball rankings we run weekly here at VarsityLetters.ca has always been and will continue to be a staple of our coverage.From a personal standpoint, as a former provincial ranker myself for much of the last quarter century, it remains the traditional vehicle for giving basketball fans in our province […]
A Sunday Read: Remembering Prentice Lenz (1971-2024), a farmer for all seasons and a coach for the ages
By HOWARD TSUMURA, VarsityLetters.caABBOTSFORD — In the parlance of his profession, Prentice Lenz tilled every inch of a basketball court with the same level of discipline, ingenuity and faith he practiced every time he’d crouch to put his hands in the earth.Farmer. Family man. Father figure. He was all three of those in ways in which […]
12.11.24 edition: BC Boys Top 10 Hoops rankings! Semi, Fox make 4A climb, STM takes over as AAA No. 1
LANGLEY — Here are the second set of B.C. boys high school in-season basketball rankings.BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Spectrum Thunder (Saanich) (VI) (LW-1)2 Dover Bay Dolphins (Nanaimo) (VI) (2)3 Oak Bay Bays (Victoria) (VI) (3)4 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (VSS) (4)5 St. George’s Saints (Vancouver) (VSS) (5)6 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF) (6)7 Semiahmoo […]
B.C. Junior Boys Basketball Top 10: First in-season poll has St. George’s, Argyle, New West and Van College the early Final Four pick when JV fever hits LEC’s 32-team tourney Feb. 22-25!
The B.C. Junior Boys Basketball Association checks in with its first poll of the season.It’s the start of the run-up to to the 2025 B.C. invitational championship at the Langley Events Centre Feb. 22-25.Last season’s champions from Terry Fox Secondary in PoCo are now competing at the senior varsity level and opened some eyes this […]
TBI Girls 2024: Our strongest field ever is filled with schools from latest Top 10 rankings! It’s 9 of 10 AAAA, 5 of 7 AAA, 7 of 8 AA and 1A’s Top 2! Are you ready?
LANGLEY —The first potential showdown between the top two teams in the most recent B.C. senior girls high school Top 10 Quad-A rankings.(See full Top 10s for all four tiers below)A tournament weekend beginning its four-day run Wednesday with 23 of its 32 total teams occupying Top 10 spots between the province’s four tiers of […]
TBI 2024 Select 16 Final: How King George coach Darko Kulic topped No. 1 Collingwood with hoops game-plan designed around NFL’s 2013 Super Bowl champion Seahawks! Huh?
LANGLEY — Sometimes, you can’t help but think Darko Kulic is a genius.Quirky, unconventional and unapologetic are three other ways to describe the persona of the King George Dragons head coach, a guy who loves his players and truly uses the game of hoops to teach them about life.It’s all true.He won’t deny it.But about […]