LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior boys Double-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here regularly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraDOUBLE A (AT SOUTH COURT)DAY […]
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FINAL: 03.04.26 Day 1 reports from the 2026 B.C. senior boys SINGLE-A Sweet 16!
LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior boys Single-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here regularly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraBOYSDAY 1No. 1 ST JOHN’S […]
As BC boys Sweet 16 set for morning tip, we give you BCBM’s analytical take on all four March Madness brackets!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY — All season long, Varsity Letters has teamed with B.C. Basketball Metrics to present an analytics-driven view of the B.C. senior boys high school basketball world.With opening tip now just one sleep away, we’ve got more to whet your appetite heading into Wednesday’s four 8:30 a.m. opening tips at the LEC: […]
80 For 80: On the eve of the 80th B.C. senior boys tourney at LEC, an anniversary committee selects its 80 greatest players from all tiers!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — The old grey-haired wonder is still giving us all a show, and by just about every metric you check, it’s more popular than its ever been.Today, in honour of the 80th birthday of the B.C. High School Boys Basketball Tournament, set to tip off its four-day run tomorrow morning at 8:30 […]
Complete ‘jumbo-sized’ B.C. senior boys basketball championship draws are here! Plot the road map of your favourite schools as March Madness tips off March 4 at the LEC!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY — The draws are now official for all four tiers of competition as the Road to March Madness has bloomed! Here are the draws — CLICK ON THE EACH TIER’S CENTRED TAG BELOW FOR A FULL-SCREEN VERSION — for the 80th (Quad-A), the 12th (Triple-A), the 38th (Double-A) and the 56th (Single-A) […]
BC Jr. Boys Final: Van College tops Burnaby South to capture crown, cap perfect 34-0 season as MVP Koen Li leads the way!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY TOWNSHIP — One of the greatest B.C. junior boys basketball champions of all-time?Even if the fantasy archive with all of the answers actually existed, the one where every score of every game of every season for the past 56 years had been recorded for posterity, so much of it would still […]
Jr. Boys Final Four: On a night when team defence carries the day, No. 1 Irish reach new level in win over No. 4 Brookswood Bobcats!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY TOWNSHIP — When you play maybe the best basketball game out of your entire season on its biggest and brightest stage yet, and it happens to push your overall record to 33-0, hyperbole can sometimes be your own worst enemy.A head coach must always pick and choose his post-game words with […]
Jr. Boys Final Four: No. 2 Burnaby South’s defensive switch flips script on No. 3 Holy Cross, Rebels win 76-64 to earn place in Tuesday’s BC final!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.ca(Editor’s note — due to the ticking of the clock, older sportswriters must first get their proper sleep. Apologies, but the Vancouver College-Brookswood game report will hopefully materialize with the morning rooster! Hopefully not too much later. Here’s my Burnaby South-Holy Cross report. — Howard)LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Junior varsity basketball games may, at […]
BC Jr. Quarters: Holy Cross on its road to redemption from last season’s upset loss! No. 3 Crusaders top No. 6 Van Tech for first-ever Final Four berth!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersTOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Last season, as No. 6 seeds in the B.C. junior boys basketball championships, Surrey’s Holy Cross Crusaders had any thoughts of a deep run to tournament glory dashed on the first day of the competition.In hindsight, losing to No. 27-seeded Lambrick Park was a classic case of underestimating […]
BC Jr. Quarters: Late surge of local lightning bottled by Langley’s No. 4 Brookswood Bobcats who top No. 5 Heritage Woods to book Final Four passage!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersTOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Tyson Kenyon, Mason Nohr and the rest of the hometown Brookswood Bobcats spent virtually the entire game trying to rattle the equilibrium of their foes from Port Moody, the Heritage Woods Kodiaks.Yet it wasn’t until the final two minutes of play Sunday that the 6-foot-3 Grade 10 forward […]