LANGLEY — The Fleetwood Park Dragons are taking a cue from the calendar.Unranked in the Quad-A tier last week, the Dragons finally came through with that so-called signature victory, stopping the then-No. 4-ranked Tamanawis Wildcats 72-65 in the final of the Surrey RCMP Classic on Saturday at the Langley Events Centre.The victory, on the backs […]
High School Boys Basketball
01.20.25 edition: SRS boys Top 50 sees Oak Bay Bays take over No. 2! SMUS, King George, Handsworth, MEI make top rises while three other newcomers arrive!
LANGLEY — B.C. Basketball Metrics’ latest SRS Boys Top 50 would have No. 1 Spectrum vs. No. 4 Kelowna, and No. 2 Oak Bay vs. No. 3 Dover Bay if the Final Four was tipping off Jan. 20.(As I add a day after posting, thanks to loyal reader Jack Showers, that of course isn’t possible […]
UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball lands a prize Class of 2025 recruit! Dover Bay’s 6-foot-7 Frank Linder, reigning BC Triple-A MVP, brings a universal skill set to War Memorial Gym!
VANCOUVER — Start with his agility, length and power.Then consider that it all comes within a 6-foot-7, 195-pound frame.Those who have seen forward/guard Frank Linder grow into his position as one of the top seniors in B.C. high school basketball over the past few seasons with Nanaimo’s Dover Bay Dolphins know all too well that […]
01.15.25: B.C. senior boys basketball rankings: Spectrum, St. Pat’s sitting on the pole! Could RCMP, Catholics, Snowball shake it up?
LANGLEY — Only one change atop the four tiers of B.C. boys high school basketball this week, as St. Patricks flip-flops with St. Thomas More at the peak of the Triple-A rankings following the final of the Rich Goutlet Chancellor final Saturday in Burnaby,.Spectrum staved off the same scenario atop 4A, topping No. 3 Oak […]
Chancellor 2025: Capacity crowds at St. Thomas More induce a 1980’s flashback for your author! We dissect champion St. Pat’s, runner-up Knights boffo No. 1 v. No. 2 title clash!
BURNABY — One thing I’ve noticed happening a lot more with age, are the number of times I get high school basketball flashbacks while attending games in the here-and-now of this 2024-25 season.So before we get to the guts of this story, which is centred around the incredible show that both the No. 1-ranked St. […]
01.13.25 edition: Whose star is rising fastest in BC SRS Top 50? Notre Dame, Grandview Hts, Mt. Boo!
LANGLEY — Response has been very positive since Varsity Letters began running the B.C. SRS Top 50 senior boys basketball rankings a number of weeks back.If there has been a general concensus from our readers, it has centred around two points.One, you have appreciated the fact that a vehicle now exists which puts all four […]
A Sunday Read: Guess why No. 1 Spectrum’s win over No. 3 Oak Bay in Terry Fox Legal Beagle final is the defending B.C. 4A champ Thunder’s biggest win of the season!
By HOWARD TSUMURA (VarsityLetters.ca)SPECTRUM 70 OAK BAY 62PORT COQUITLAM — Saturday night’s Legal Beagle championship final victory by the Spectrum Thunder is the Victoria team’s biggest win since it cut down the nets last March at the Langley Events Centre as the kings of B.C. Quad-A hoops.It may seem a heady statement, yet on the […]
Terry Fox Legal Beagle 2025: No. 1 Spectrum faces No. 3 Oak Bay as Victoria duo sweep Final 4 Friday!
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 […]
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 […]