LANGLEY — Welcome to Quarterfinal Thursday here at the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.We’ve gone final for the night. You can read all four of our game reports here. Thanks to Gary Kingston, Gary Ahuja and Wilson Wong for their help tonight in producing this report.SELECT 16(Centre Court)DRAW ACOLLINGWOOD 76 BRENTWOOD COLLEGE 67By GARY KINGSTON (Special […]
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We’ve gone final at Day 1 of Super 16 at Tsumura Basketball Invitational! A day of upset and classics as four Top 10 Quad-A teams lose!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2025 boys Tsumura Basketball Invitational and our eight Super 16 bracket games.We’ve gone final for Day 1. Here are all eight game reports, plus tomorrow’s schedule on the championship side of the draw with all games being played at the LEC’s South Court.Before we get to all […]
We’ve gone final from Day 1 of Select 16 at Tsumura Basketball Invitational! Read every game report and see Thursday’s matchups!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2025 boys Tsumura Basketball Invitational and our eight Select 16 bracket games.Before we get to today’s eight game reports, a huge thanks to the LEC’s Gary Ahuja for pinch-hitting and delivering with seven of those game reports.You can read them below, but first, here’s a look at […]
12.03.25 edition: The latest B.C. boys Top 10 basketball rankings! Tammy, St. Pats teams to beat!
LANGLEY — With so many of B.C.’s top-ranked teams at the Quad-A, Triple-A and Double-A level busy today (Dec. 2) at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational, the latest rankings released this morning will get an instant test.Our thanks to everyone in the trenches for producing weekly the B.C. Top 10s, and of course to Tom Tagami […]
A Sunday Read, TBI 2025 edition: The path of Victoria’s Diego Maffia from the depths of his 11th-hour torn ACL, to a Vikes’ national title, and now his return to the LEC as Oak Bay’s new head coach!
LANGLEY — Diego Maffia never thought basketball could break his heart.Once, in his Grade 12 season (2018-19) with Victoria’s Oak Bay Bays, he poured home 94 points in a 114-88 win over Edmonton’s Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds, the greatest single-game scoring performance in B.C. boys high school basketball history.And over a university career with his hometown […]
B.C. Junior Boys Preseason Top 10 ranks: VC, Bby South 1-2 with Mulgrave and Abby Traditional completing an early Final 4!
LANGLEY — Some traditional powers, and some interesting interlopers come together in the first Top 10 ranking for B.C. junior boys high school basketball.Coaches, you can send your scores by either of these two methods:Google DocsSend an email to jrboysprovs@gmail.comTOP 10 #1(Nov. 21, 2025)JUNIOR BOYS1 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (VSS)2 Burnaby South Rebels (FN)3 Mulgrave […]
B.C. Boys Top 10 preseason basketball rankings! Tamanawis, St. Pats, Pacific Academy, SJS all top their tiers as the March to madness in 2025-26 now set for official tip-off!
LANGLEY — Welcome to preseason B.C. boys high school basketball rankings for the 2025-26 season.We here at Varsity Letters will be with you every step of the way throughout the season, providing up-to-date Top 10 rankings from B.C. School Sports.BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF)2 Kelowna Owls (TOK)3 Vancouver College Fighting […]
TBI field finalized: We unveil the 64 boys and girls teams set to take part this December in Tsumura Basketball Invitational 2025!
By Howard Tsumura(VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational is once again proud to help usher in a new season of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball.The 2025-26 campaign will only be in its second week of play when the TBI begins a two-week run at the Langley Events Centre with our senior boys […]
A Sunday Read: The ‘dream-like’ journey of St. George’s B.C. Quad-A MVP Dorian Glogovac! His 53-point Final Four outing sets new senior boys top-tiered provincial championship-side record!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsity LettersLANGLEY — If you watched the way Dorian Glogovac played over the final four games of his high school career earlier this month at the B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball championships, you’d almost swear that he was performing in some kind of dream state.And maybe that isn’t too far from the truth, […]
B.C. BOYS QUAD-A FINAL: How the simple act of plugging players into a zone offence proved revelatory in Spectrum’s historic title win over Dover Bay! Thunder now Island’s first top-tier repeat champs in 51 years!
BY HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — There was no time to stand still.The season-long battle between No. 1 Spectrum and No. 2 Dover Bay, one which ultimately manifested itself for a fifth and final time as the finale to an incredible 2024-25 B.C. senior boys basketball season, never pretended, for even a second, to be anything […]