By Howard Tsumura
VarsityLetters.ca
LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — It’s been six weeks since the 2025-26 B.C. high school basketball season wrapped itself up before glorious ovation at the Langley Events Centre.
Now, it’s time to start the countdown to a new season, and with it, the 2026 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.
This coming season, the boys Super 16 and Select 16 dual tournaments run Dec. 9-12, followed the next week by the girls Super 16 and Select 16 dual tournaments.
Today we unveil all the teams set to take part in those four respective brackets.
BOYS SUPER 16 (Dec. 9-12)
ARGYLE (VSS)
BROOKSWOOD (EV)
BURNABY SOUTH (FN)
CENTENNIAL (FN)
DOVER BAY (VI)
G.W. GRAHAM (EV)
HOLY CROSS (SF)
KITSILANO (VSS)
NEW WESTMINSTER (FN)
PANORAMA RIDGE (SF)
RUTLAND (TOK)
SALISH (SF)
ST. GEORGE’S (VSS)
ST. PAT’S (VSS)
SARDIS (EV)
TERRY FOX (FN)
BOYS SELECT 16 (Dec. 9-12)
BELMONT (V)
CLAREMONT (VI)
DUCHESS PARK (NC)
ERIC HAMBER (VSS)
GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS (SF)
HERITAGE WOODS (FN)
KING GEORGE (VSS)
L.A. MATHESON (SF)
LORD TWEEDSMUIR (SF)
MOUNT BAKER (KOO)
NANAIMO DISTRICT (VI)
PENTICTON (TOK)
SIR CHARLES TUPPER (VSS)
SPECTRUM (VI)
ST. THOMAS MORE (FN)
SULLIVAN HEIGHTS (SF)
GIRLS SUPER 16 (Dec. 16-19)
ARGYLE (VSS)
BURNABY SOUTH (FN)
DR. CHARLES BEST (FN)
DOVER BAY (VI)
EARL MARRIOTT (SF)
G.W. GRAHAM (EV)
JOHNSTON HEIGHTS (SF)
LANGLEY CHRISTIAN (EV)
LORD TWEEDSMUIR (SF)
MEI (EV)
OKANAGAN MISSION (TOK)
RIVERSIDE (FN)
SAINT MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL (VI)
SEMIAHMOO (SF)
VERNON (TOK)
YALE (EV)
GIRLS SELECT 16 (Dec. 16-19)
ABBOTSFORD CHRISTIAN (EV)
BROOKSWOOD (EV)
CEDARS CHRISTIAN (NC)
CENTENNIAL (FN)
COLLINGWOOD (VSS)
CREDO CHRISTIAN (EV)
FERNIE (KOO)
G.P. VANIER (VI)
HOLY CROSS (SF)
J.L. JACKSON (TOK)
PACIFIC ACADEMY (SF)
R.A. MCMATH (VSS)
SAINT THOMAS MORE (FN)
SEAQUAM (SF)
SIR CHARLES TUPPER (VSS)
WINDSOR (VSS)
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