By Howard TsumuraST. THOMAS MORE 89 ARCHBISHOP CARNEY 32BURNABY — In an era where offence rules the roost at every level of basketball, precisely how does a head coach get her team to make it the No. 1 part of their identity?“I think it’s the most fun part of basketball to be honest,” said St. […]
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B.C. Boys Top 10 basketball rankings 02.14.24 edition: Fast-rising Elgin Park Orcas, St. George’s Saints give boys Quad-A 10 Top 10 a new look!
LANGLEY — Vancouver’s St. George’s Saints and the Elgin Park Orcas of Surrey were the big climbers this week in the B.C. senior boys Quad-A Top 10 rankings.Saints proved their mettle in winning close at home and on the road against traditional rivals, beating St. Patrick’s at home 73-69 and then winning 85-84 last Thursday […]
Grayson Ritzand: At age 15, here’s the origin story of Nanaimo-Wellington’s iron-pumping, semi-ambidextrous star Grade 10 forward who’s already surpassed the 1,000-point senior varsity scoring mark!
NANAIMO — Ask Grayson Ritzand to tell you the story of how he has become a chiseled, semi-ambidextrous senior varsity forward with level of maturity which seemingly overshadows even his own voluminous scoring average, and it almost seems like you’re privy to plot lines of some comic book super-hero origin story-in-the-making.That’s the feeling you get […]
BC Junior Boys Hoops Top 10: It’s 17 days and counting to championship tip-off at the LEC! Will form hold for an St. Pat’s vs. Oak Bay final? Let the madness begin as the chase for 32 berths is heating up!
LANGLEY — The B.C. junior boys basketball championships tip off on the final Saturday of February.That’s Feb. 24, or 17 days.Here’s the final Top 10 of the season as the official stretch drive to provincials is under way. Of note, only four ranked teams from last week survived the cut to remain in the final […]
B.C. Boys Top 10 basketball rankings 02.06.24 edition: Byrne Creek burns it up! Bulldogs take down St. Pat’s North Delta, Lord Byng to win Rick Hansen tourney and move into Triple-A No. 1!
LANGLEY — It was a relatively quiet week atop the upper reaches of the B.C. senior boys high school basketball world.Quiet, that is, unless you happen to be the Triple-A Byrne Creek Bulldogs.The Burnaby-based Bulldogs made about as definitive a late-season statement as is possible outside of league and zone playoffs, beating three straight ranked […]
B.C. girls Top 10 basketball rankings 02.05.24: Seaquam moves back into Quad-A final four territory, Brookswood’s baby Bobcats take over Triple-A No. 1!
LANGLEY — Here’s a look at the latest B.C. senior girls high school basketball rankings at all four tiers courtesy of B.C. School Sports:FEB. 5QUAD-A1 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (LW-1)2 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (2)3 Yale Lions (Abbotsford) (EV) (3) 4 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (5) 5 Okanagan-Mission Huskies (Kelowna) (TOK) (4)6 Burnaby Central […]
B.C. Boys Top 10 basketball rankings 01.31.24 edition: Ready for March Madness? This week, 36 overall ranking slots change teams across four tiers of Top 10 polls! Parity runs rampant across the province!
LANGLEY — Absolute insanity.That’s the only way to describe how extreme parity has brought a fragile state of affairs to all four tiers of the B.C. senior boys basketball Top 10 rankings.How topsy-turvy did it get?From last week’s total of 43 overall Top 10 rankings slots (3A, 2A and 1A each featured ties for the […]
B.C. girls Top 10 basketball rankings 01.29.24: As the calendar turns towards February, it’s the powers that be — Riverside, SMUS, Mulgrave — who hold serve!
LANGLEY — The clearest indication yet that the top teams in B.C. senior girls basketball are settling in for the final stretch drive to playoffs?The province’s three largest tiers all issued new Top 10 rankings this week, and the top four at all three remained unchanged.Here’s a look at the latest courtesy of B.C. School […]
B.C. Boys Top 10 basketball rankings 01.24.24 edition: Tweed is back in fashion! Surrey’s Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers, unranked two weeks ago, top Tammy in RCMP final to grab Quad-A Top 4 poll position!
LANGLEY — If you bought stock in the Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers a couple of weeks ago, you’ve been rewarded for your faith.Over a two-week span, Surrey’s formerly-unranked Panthers have rocketed skyward in the B.C. Quad-A Top 10, from No. 7 last week to now, No. 4 in the most recent provincial rankings.Lord Tweedsmuir edged former […]
Bill Edwards Appreciation Night: “Once a Husky, always a Husky” seems custom-coined for one so steeped in North Delta hoops history! On Thursday, it’s time to say ‘Thank You, Bill’ to the Dean of the ‘Dawgs!
NORTH DELTA — If you had to identify his place on the family tree of North Delta Huskies boys basketball, you’d first start by imagining the mighty Oak.Then, you’d fix your stare on its weathered trunk.You know, that thick, strong and absolutely unflappable part of a tree, the place where it’s always thickest… the place […]