L.A. Matheson's Jaiden Shergill (left) drives on Collingwood's Peter Huang during Final Four Friday to earn a spot in Saturday's TBI Select 16 championship final. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Select 16 Day 3: We’ve gone final on Final Four Friday! Read our game reports here!

By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Welcome to our Final Four Friday here in the Select 16 draw.L.A. MATHESON 93 COLLINGWOOD 76By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — The Comeback Kids, aka West Vancouver’s Collingwood Cavaliers, mounted a fourth-quarter rally from 13 points down on Thursday to beat Brentwood College and earn a berth in Friday’s TBI Select 16 Final […]

St. Patricks' Dhyne Cotin extends for a lay-in against Ilia Maydan and Argyle during TBI Super 16 quarterfinal action Dec. 4, 2025 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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We’ve gone final of Day 2 of TBI 2025’s Super 16 bracket! Read all four quarterfinal game reports here!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Quarterfinal Thursday here at the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.We’ve gone final for the night. Here are all four game reports:SUPER 16(South Court)DRAW AST. PATRICK 99 ARGYLE 72LANGLEY — There is something to be said for precision, that united state of mind and body that has best been manifested during the first […]

Brentwood College's Jackson Lenarcic soars to a lay-in against Collingwood during TBI Select 16 quarterfinal action Dec. 4, 2025 at the Langley Events Centre. Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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We’ve gone final of Day 2 of TBI 2025’s Select 16 bracket! Read all four quarterfinal game reports here!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Quarterfinal Thursday here at the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.We’ve gone final for the night. You can read all four of our game reports here. Thanks to Gary Kingston, Gary Ahuja and Wilson Wong for their help tonight in producing this report.SELECT 16(Centre Court)DRAW ACOLLINGWOOD 76 BRENTWOOD COLLEGE 67By GARY KINGSTON (Special […]

Argyle's Ilia Maydan (right) grimaces as he looks to create space against Centennial's Josh Onyango during opening-round action of the TBI Super 16 2025 on Wednesday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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We’ve gone final at Day 1 of Super 16 at Tsumura Basketball Invitational! A day of upset and classics as four Top 10 Quad-A teams lose!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2025 boys Tsumura Basketball Invitational and our eight Super 16 bracket games.We’ve gone final for Day 1. Here are all eight game reports, plus tomorrow’s schedule on the championship side of the draw with all games being played at the LEC’s South Court.Before we get to all […]

Collingwood's Peter Huang (right) gets physical with Alex Breszinski of Sardis during Day 1 action from the 2025 TBI Select 16 draw, Dec. 3, 2025 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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We’ve gone final from Day 1 of Select 16 at Tsumura Basketball Invitational! Read every game report and see Thursday’s matchups!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2025 boys Tsumura Basketball Invitational and our eight Select 16 bracket games.Before we get to today’s eight game reports, a huge thanks to the LEC’s Gary Ahuja for pinch-hitting and delivering with seven of those game reports.You can read them below, but first, here’s a look at […]

Tamanawis and St. Patricks continue to stay atop the province's two largest tiers. (Varsity Letters file photo 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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12.03.25 edition: The latest B.C. boys Top 10 basketball rankings! Tammy, St. Pats teams to beat!

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 […]

Teammate Aaron Tesfagiorgis (right) presents the national championship trophy to injured teammate Diego Maffia following the Vikes' win in the 2025 national final over Calgary. (Photo by Richard Lam property of UBC Athletics 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Four seasons ago, back in the 2022 B.C. junior boys final, current SFU Red Leafs post Roko Maric led Vancouver College past Burnaby South in the provincial title game. This season, the Irish and the Rebels are sitting 1-2 to start the new season. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Pacific Academy co-coaches Seth Sorensen (left) and Joel Ashbee address their Breakers during B.C. senior boys basketball Championships last March at the LEC. (Photo by Garrett James property of Langley Events Centre 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Argyle's Mariia Maydan (left) in action during TBI Super 16 Day 1 action 12.11.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]