Click on our links inside to get high-resolution draws for all four pools at the 2024 boys and girls TBI, once again set for the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Seaquam's Mackenzie Henderson is one of a massive number of returning players for the Seahawks, who last season won both the TBI and B.C. Quad-A titles at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Girls 2024: Top to bottom, our Super 16 and Select 16 brackets combine to give the Tsumura Basketball Invitational its strongest overall field ever! The best of 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A in one place! Full draws are right here!

LANGLEY — The senior boys draws for the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational was released Wednesday (Oct. 16).Today, it’s time for the release of the girls TBI draws for both the Super 16 and Select 16 events, each set to begin a four-day run Dec. 11 at the Langley Events Centre.This year, we asked for input […]

Seaquam's Camryn Tait, the reigning TBI Super 16 MVP, leads North Delta's Seahawks back to next season's Tsumura Basketball Invitational set to run Dec. 11-14 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Langley Events Centre 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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GIRLS TBI 2024: The teams are now set for the Tsumura Basketball Invitational Dec. 11-14! It’s a 32-team affair with Super 16 and Select 16 pools!

By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — 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 girls field in the Super 16 […]

That's how good third place in Quad-A feels for the Okanagan-Mission Huskies. The Kelowna-based team will be back on the court vying for No. 1 in the 2024-25 season ranked No. 6 in B.C.'s largest tier. (Photo by Mark Steffens property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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It’s way-too-early Top 10 time! B.C. senior girls’ pre-preason basketball rankings for 2024-25 are here!

LANGLEY — With the 2023-24 B.C. senior girls basketball season now recently in the rearview mirror, it’s time for our first look at the road ahead.That can mean just one thing: The pre-prepreseason Top 10’s at all four tiers!Let this be all the reasons you keep our great game at the forefront of your thoughts […]

How popular have the B.C. senior girls basketball championships become? This season's Quad-A final between North Delta's Seaquam Seahawks and the Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam was so popular that the game was played before a standing-room only sell-out crowd at its Centre Court complex. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. girls high school basketball will celebrate 75th provincial championships in 2025 at LEC by playing all of its Championship final games on the big floor of Arena Bowl!

LANGLEY — B.C. high school basketball’s championship season is coming off what may well be its most comprehensively attended back-to-back-to-back provincial tournaments.And while the walls at the host Langley Events Centre seems to still be reverberating almost a full week after their completion, the long-whispered rumours about a key venue change for one of those […]

Riverside's Avery Sussex (left) and Riverside's Grace Bradshaw turned in two of reporter Howard Tsumura's most impressive moments over the course of the BC senior girls high school basketball championships. And none of them had anything to do with statistics. (Photos by Wilson Wong and Garrett James property of Langley Events Centre, TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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The story of Grace and Avery: On a red-letter day for BC girls hoop, two high school seniors show, through their incredible selflessness, why our great game has never stopped doing what it does best!

LANGLEY — There is a good case to make for Saturday’s menu of four B.C. senior girls basketball provincial championship finals as the stuff which constitutes the greatest single day in the history of the girls high school game in this province.The Double-A, Triple-A and Quad-A games were all decided by six points, each characterized […]

All season, he told his players that basketball is a game of runs and to never stop believing. On Saturday, Seaquam head coach Lucky Toor was wearing the spoils of victory as his Seahawks became the first team in Delta history to win a B.C. senior girls basketball championship title. (Photo by Garrett James property of Langley Events Centre 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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BC Girls Quad-A final: In a zone of their own, Seaquam rallies with a perfect fourth quarter to stun defending champs & No. 1 seed Riverside, becoming Delta’s first-ever senior girls provincial hoop champs!

No. 3 SEAQUAM 79 No. 1 RIVERSIDE 73By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — It’s one thing to have a secret weapon you’re pretty sure can get you out of just about any sticky situation you might run into on the basketball court.It’s another thing entirely to have the patience which allows you to actually keep that secret, […]

Brookswood Bobcats guard Jordyn Nohr led her team to the B.C. senior girls Triple A title Saturday over St. Michaels University School at the LEC. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Langley Events Centre 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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As Bobcats edge SMUS Blue Jags in B.C. Triple-A overtime thriller, MVP Jordyn Nohr talks Ace Konig, showtime passes & helping to re-kindle past glory at Brookswood: “I think we have the group to do it”

No. 1 BROOKSWOOD 69 No. 2 ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL 63 (OT)LANGLEY — Jordyn Nohr knows her way around the historical section of the annual B.C. girls basketball championship program.And the Grade 9 guard with Langley’s top-seeded Brookswood Bobcats, who on Saturday added yet another MVP trophy to place up on the family mantle following […]

A coach's tears of joy. Langley Christian head coach Danielle Gardner took a private moment amidst the celebration of her team's B.C. Double-A championship win over Mulgrave during Day 4 championship game play at the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships March 2, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: How this photo tells a thousand words about why our high school coaches coach! Here’s why I am writing about what Danie Gardner’s face says to me as her Langley Christian Lightning win B.C. girls Double-A title!

No. 3 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 75  No. 1 MULGRAVE 69By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Somehow, somewhere amidst the sea of Langley Christian players, parents and most of all fans, the latter of whom just a minute or two prior had stormed the court at the Langley Events Centre, Lightning coach Danielle Gardner found a tiny sliver of […]

The star of the show, Miah Schuurman, played like a force of nature against Pacific Christian during Day 4 championship game action at the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships March 1, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Schuurman’s historic showing earns Unity Christian Flames first Single A title in five years in win over Pacific Christian’s Pacers!

By AARON MARTIN (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — If you’re put on the big stage, you’re expected to put on a big show.In the B.C. senior girls Single-A championship final Saturday at the Langley Events Centre, Miah Schuurman and Chilliwack’s Unity Christian Flames more than obliged, delivering a high-flying, 83-75 win over Victoria’s Pacific Christian […]