(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 […]
High School Girls Basketball
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]