LANGLEY — With so many of B.C.’s top-ranked teams at the Quad-A, Triple-A and Double-A level busy today (Dec. 2) at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational, the latest rankings released this morning will get an instant test.Our thanks to everyone in the trenches for producing weekly the B.C. Top 10s, and of course to Tom Tagami […]
High School
A Sunday Read, TBI 2025 edition: The path of Victoria’s Diego Maffia from the depths of his 11th-hour torn ACL, to a Vikes’ national title, and now his return to the LEC as Oak Bay’s new head coach!
LANGLEY — Diego Maffia never thought basketball could break his heart.Once, in his Grade 12 season (2018-19) with Victoria’s Oak Bay Bays, he poured home 94 points in a 114-88 win over Edmonton’s Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds, the greatest single-game scoring performance in B.C. boys high school basketball history.And over a university career with his hometown […]
B.C. Junior Boys Preseason Top 10 ranks: VC, Bby South 1-2 with Mulgrave and Abby Traditional completing an early Final 4!
LANGLEY — Some traditional powers, and some interesting interlopers come together in the first Top 10 ranking for B.C. junior boys high school basketball.Coaches, you can send your scores by either of these two methods:Google DocsSend an email to jrboysprovs@gmail.comTOP 10 #1(Nov. 21, 2025)JUNIOR BOYS1 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (VSS)2 Burnaby South Rebels (FN)3 Mulgrave […]
B.C. Boys Top 10 preseason basketball rankings! Tamanawis, St. Pats, Pacific Academy, SJS all top their tiers as the March to madness in 2025-26 now set for official tip-off!
LANGLEY — Welcome to preseason B.C. boys 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 B.C. School Sports.BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF)2 Kelowna Owls (TOK)3 Vancouver College Fighting […]
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 […]
A Sunday Read: The ‘dream-like’ journey of St. George’s B.C. Quad-A MVP Dorian Glogovac! His 53-point Final Four outing sets new senior boys top-tiered provincial championship-side record!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsity LettersLANGLEY — If you watched the way Dorian Glogovac played over the final four games of his high school career earlier this month at the B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball championships, you’d almost swear that he was performing in some kind of dream state.And maybe that isn’t too far from the truth, […]