SURREY — Brian Wallack was somewhere around three years of age when a young player from Salmon Arm Secondary named Casey Archibald first donned the blue-and-gold of the UBC Thunderbirds.
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Holy Cross’ Konn, Bailey of VC’s Irish each choose SFU Clan to start collegiate careers
BURNABY — A pair of B.C.’s best graduating seniors, each adept at performing in an uptempo setting, have cast their futures with the Simon Fraser Clan men’s basketball program.
BCHSBBA All-Star Saturday: Complete rosters, all four tiers, for the weekend’s big games
The rosters have been set and the head coaches finalized for the B.C. High School Boys Basketball Association’s Super All-star Saturday at Richmond’s R.C. Palmer Secondary.
All-star Super Saturday comes April 8 for BC boys high school basketball
RICHMOND — Circle Saturday, April 8 on your calendar as the day B.C. boys high school basketball celebrates its game and the bright young stars that helped make the 2016-17 campaign so memorable.
Big 10 pre-preseason hoop rankings! Holy Cross, Brentwood, Abbotsford top charts
Welcome to the off-season.The high school championships have concluded and now, it’s time to start thimijng about next season.Here are pre-preseason Top 10s for three of the seven B.C. boys and girls high school basketball tiers.The boys Quad-A poll was pulled together on five sets of submitted rankings, including my own and the top three […]
Quad A: Gators, Owls clash reminds us all why we care so much about our high school game
LANGLEY — Sometimes, on those nights when the basketball gods deem it time, the things that allow a most beautiful game to achieve a heightened state of existence unfold before our eyes and remind us why we care so much.
Triple A: For ‘Canes, mind over matter more than a mantra, Hansen claims first B.C. title
LANGLEY — It was a championship game that started out about as slow the morning traffic trying to make its way down a snowy Highway 1 West from the eastern part of the Fraser Valley towards Langley.
Double A: Sullivan’s triples cripple SMUS, send Brentwood to first BC varsity hoops title
LANGLEY — Brendan Sullivan wasn’t thinking about his form, his technique or any of the intangibles that have turned him into a clutch shooter.“I saw the shot-clock running down, I was trying to run a play, but I just ended hucking it up,” the Grade 11 guard said. “I just had faith and apparently it […]
B.C. Christian Panthers win provincial 1A title with eclectic collection of hoop parts
LANGLEY — A senior who picked the perfect time to have the shooting performance of his life.A basketball lifer who found a new team to coach and wound up taking them right to the top.And, against all odds, the first Grade 8 to ever be named the MVP of a B.C. senior varsity basketball championship […]
Quad A: Grove v. Kelowna, Ty v. Mace, a final that looks like “…a treat, a basketball treat”
LANGLEY — In their senior seasons, on the province’s two best teams, and now, facing each other in the final game of their respective high school basketball careers.Go on, say it: Today is the day for Ty Rowell vs. Mason Bourcier.