By Howard TsumuraVarsity Letters(Varsity Letters will attempt to produce separate stories on all four quarterfinals at Sunday’s BC Junior Boys Basketball Championships. Check back throughout the evening. We’ll start here!)TOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Last season, Vancouver College junior boys basketball head coach Siamak Salehi was quite content to roll with a roster comprised exclusively of […]
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02.18.26 B.C. senior boys Top 10 basketball rankings: Unranked Earl Marriott Mariners use upset win to pull within one victory of B.C. Quad-A tournament berth at South Fraser quarterfinals!
LANGLEY — With two weeks to go until the start of the B.C. senior boys basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre, all four provincial Top 10’s experienced barely a ripple on its collective lakefront.The lone exception, last week’s Quad-A poll saw Surrey’s Grandview Heights Grizzlies ranked at No. 3. On Tuesday, following a 77-73 […]
B.C. Junior Boys Basketball Championships 2026: Are No. 1 Van College, No. 2 Burnaby South on a collision course à la 2022? A drama-packed 32-team field hit the LEC court running on Saturday !
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — Last season’s pre-tournament rankings were better than any mystic’s crystal ball pronouncements.The Argyle Pipers of North Vancouver and the St. Patricks Celtics of Vancouver were respective No. 1 and 2 seeds heading into the 2025 B.C. junior boys championships, and in the end, it was the Celts topping the Pipers 88-73 […]
Varsity Letters bulletin: Coaches and players, please be patient as we finalize our dates for Dec. 2026 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals for girls and boys at the Langley Events Centre!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caTOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Hello to our community of senior girls and boys high school basketball coaches around the province of B.C.Howard Tsumura here today with a message to everyone wondering about the dates for the 2026 Tsumura Basketball Invitational which has traditionally been played over the first two weeks of December.Due to […]
02.16.26 BC Basketball Metrics edition: Where are the best boys provincial berth battles! Too many to choose, but how about 4A South Fraser, Okanagan, plus 3A Van Isle and 1A East Valley!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY —Interesting how much intrigue the wildcard factor is ramping up the chatter around the province as we get to that stage of the season where it’s win-or-go-home in the chase for B.C. boys tournament berths.Through our weekly B.C. Basketball Metrics peeks, the plot lines have clearly been sketched, but like any […]
So who’s on the bubble for the B.C. boys basketball tourney’s four coveted ‘strength-berth’ spots? With BC Basketball Metrics’ weekly numbers, we offer thoughts, and look at the week’s biggest news!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — Putting a bit of a microscope to our third week of B.C. Basketball Metrics numbers is proving to generate all kinds of fun, stats-driven questions.We’ll start out with the biggest news in terms of movement this past week, with a look at the Quad-A, Triple-A and Double-A scenes.Then, we’ll look at […]
02.04.26 Sr. Boys Top 10 ranks: Epic home-and-home sets at 4A, 3A define the greatness of BC boys hoops! Saints-Irish, Enver-Matheson battles carry the day! Plus our final Jr. Boys Top 10!
LANGLEY — The Vancouver Independent league race between St. Georges and Vancouver College lived up to its late-season legend.Each team took turns winning on the other’s home court in a home-and-home last Thursday and Tuesday with the then-No. 1 Fighting Irish coming away with a 94-82 win in the first game, before the then-No. 7-Saints […]
02.02.26: B.C. Basketball Metrics boys combined team ratings: 4A Rutland, 3A Brentwood College, 2A D.P. Todd the week’s biggest climbers!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — Reader response was excellent last week as Varsity Letters and B.C. Basketball Metrics debuted with its co-operative presentation of Top 16 and Zone ratings for B.C. senior boys basketball. We’re back with Week 2 and as the post-season beckons, it’s pretty apparent that nothing beats a good regional clash, whatever […]
01.28.26 edition: Vancouver College top both the B.C. senior Quad-A and junior boys provincial Top 10 rankings! Here’s all five tiers as March Madness creeps up ever closer!
LANGLEY — So may call it an eternal question, yet more than ever, this is the week to ask if this is indeed the year of the Vancouver College Fighting Irish? At least as it pertains to the spoils of March Madness.This week, the Irish sit at No. 1 in both the Quad-A senior boys […]
01.26.26: B.C. Basketball Metrics boys combined team ratings: Top 16s for all four tiers, plus ratings for all four tiers broken down by zone and provincial berths!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY — Today, Varsity Letters teams up with B.C. Basketball Metrics for a second straight season to present BCBBM’s analytical lookout the best senior boys basketball teams in the province.As you will see below, the weekly package this season has expanded to include eight different sets of statistical packages. Perhaps more simply, […]