LANGLEY — Day 1 of the girls 2025 TBI Super 16 tournament is in the books.Hope you enjoy all eight of our game reports here!— Howard Tsumura TOP HALF DRAWQUAD AARGYLE 80 JOHNSTON HEIGHTS 57By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — The Argyle Pipers have so much talent throughout the Grade 11-12 spectrum within its senior girls basketball program, […]
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TBI 2025: We’ve gone final! All eight Day 1 game reports from girls Select 16 bracket at Tsumura Basketball Invitational are here!
LANGLEY — Day 1 of the girls 2025 TBI Super 16 tournament is in the books.Hope you enjoy all eight of our game reports here!Our special thanks today to Ian French, Wilson Wong and Gary Ahuja for their work, without which this report would not be possible!— Howard TsumuraGIRLS SELECT 16QUAD AVALLEYVIEW 48 ARGYLE GOLD […]
12.09.25 edition: With TBI tip-off Wednesday, here’s your B.C. girls high school basketball Top 10 rankings!
LANGLEY — With the 2025 girls TBI beginning a four-day run Wednesday, keep these rankings close at hand as you follow both the Super 16 and Select 16 brackets at the Langley Events Centre.GIRLSQUAD-A1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-2) 2 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (4) 3 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (1)4 G.W. Graham Grizzlies […]
“Small town but gritty” Fernie Falcons make their Tsumura Basketball Invitational debut Wednesday with experienced, tall-timbered line-up hoping it’s a dress rehearsal for February provincials!
By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — The Fernie Falcons are soaring due west to the Langley Events Centre to start their 2025-26 season.In past seasons, the normal practice for the Double-A school from the the extreme southeast corner of the province, would be to board a bus and head out to all points east of the Alberta […]
A Sunday Read, TBI Girls 2025: At intersection of life and sports, Tupper’s Elisa Wong taps into the pulse of human connection!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caVANCOUVER — It was 15 years ago, in my past writing life as a reporter at The Province newspaper, that I first had the opportunity to talk to a young teacher and basketball coach who was just starting to make a difference with the student-athletes in her East Vancouver neighbourhood.Back then, at the […]
B.C. Girls Top 10 preseason basketball rankings! Argyle, Sa-Hali, Holy Cross top their tiers as the March to madness in 2025-26 now set for official tip-off!
LANGLEY — Welcome to B.C. School Sports preseason B.C. girls Top 10 high school basketball rankings for the 2025-26 season.We here at Varsity Letters will be with you every step of the way throughout the season, providing up-to-date Top 10 rankings from around the province each week.GIRLSQUAD-A1 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS)2 Seaquam Seahawks (North […]
Q-&-A with Tayla Jackson: As she finishes her first round of chemotherapy, former Brookswood, SFU hoops star, 28, speaks to her battle, and to the truth of hardcourt lessons worth leaning on!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — If you’re a member of B.C.’s tight-knit basketball community, you may well already have heard the gist of her story.Two weeks ago, former Brookswood Secondary and Simon Fraser hoops standout Tayla Jackson wasn’t feeling herself.At the time, with the start of hoops season just around the corner, she was in the […]
TBI 2025 Tip-off times now set: Complete four-day Tsumura Basketball Invitational brackets for boys and girls Super 16 and Select 16 pools now posted ahead of December tip-offs!
LANGLEY — Let the true official countdown to two weeks of high school basketball madness at the Langley Events Centre officially begin.Today we present the two seniors boys and two senior girls draws which make up the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals set run over the first two full weekends of December, beginning with the boys […]
Tsumura Basketball Invitational ’25 draw release: Here are all four senior boys and girls brackets for our 2025 TBI tournaments set to tip off in December at the Langley Event Centre!
LANGLEY — The very best of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball is on its way to the Langley Events Centre over the first two weeks of December.Today, we present the four draws which will make up the Super 16 and Select 16 draws as the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals.All of the precise […]
TBI field finalized: We unveil the 64 boys and girls teams set to take part this December in Tsumura Basketball Invitational 2025!
By Howard Tsumura(VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational is once again proud to help usher in a new season of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball.The 2025-26 campaign will only be in its second week of play when the TBI begins a two-week run at the Langley Events Centre with our senior boys […]