LANGLEY — The very best of B.C.’s best.
That’s the quickest and neatest way to sum up the 32 senior girls basketball teams who can now begin preparations for their opening-round opponents at B.C.’s home away from home for high school hoops.
That’s right, today we unveil the two 16-team independent draws which will compete at the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational, set to run at the Langley Events Centre from Dec. 13-16.
Each team will play one game per day over the four days of the TBI. Complete brackets, encompassing Day 2 through Day 4 game times, will be released upon its finalization.
As with the boys draw announced this past week, tough round-one match-ups abound as part of two seperate draws in which we have kept league rivals apart throughout the first round.
GIRLS
SUPER 16
(All games played at Centre Court)
TOP HALF DRAW
QUADRANT A
1:15 p.m. — Riverside vs. G.W. Graham
7:45 p.m. — St. Michaels University School vs. Okanagan Mission
QUADRANT B
8:30 a.m. — Burnaby Central vs. Langley Christian
10 a.m. — Yale vs. South Delta
BOTTOM HALF DRAW
QUADRANT C
6:15 p.m. — Mulgrave vs. Reynolds
4:30 p.m. — Kelowna vs. Brookswood
QUADRANT D
11:45 a.m. — Seaquam vs. Dr. Charles Best
3 p.m. — Argyle vs. South Kamloops
TBI 2023
GIRLS
SELECT 16
(All games played at South Court)
TOP HALF DRAW
QUADRANT A
8:30 a.m. — Sir Winston Churchill vs. Abbotsford Christian
10 a.m. — Fleetwood Park vs. St. Thomas More
QUADRANT B
11:45 a.m. — Walnut Grove vs. Maple Ridge
1:15 p.m. — Heritage Woods vs. R.A. McMath
BOTTOM HALF DRAW
QUADRANT C
3 p.m. — Holy Cross vs. Abbotsford Traditional
4:30 p.m. — Lord Tweedsmuir vs. Notre Dame
QUADRANT D
6:15 p.m. — MEI vs. Britannia
7:45 p.m. — Oak Bay vs. Clayton Heights
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