(By HOWARD TSUMURA, varsityletters.ca)Luke Howard’s final basket of the night on Thursday did a lot to prove the notion that the Simon Fraser Red Leafs’ two-game home sweep last week at the hands of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference’s two Alaska schools didn’t come in vain.In fact when Howard set a high screen for teammate […]
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01.08.25: B.C. senior boys basketball rankings: Quad-A Tammy, Kelowna line up behind Vancouver Island’s Big Three!
LANGLEY — The Vancouver Island threesome remains atop Quad-A as the new year opens in B.C. boys high school basketball.They are joined by Surrey’s Tamanawis Wildcats and the Kelowna Owls within the top five of this week’s latest Top 10.Meanwhile, the top six teams at the Triple-, Double- and Single-A tiers all home court in […]
A Red Leaf’s rising! For Abby’s Luke Howard, seven seasons on the U.S. hoops road leads to a breakthrough homecoming at Simon Fraser as GNAC home slate opens Thursday!
By Howard TsumuraBURNABY — Luke Howard’s climb to reach the summit of his college basketball career has been interminably long, at times undoubtedly lonely and beset with enough re-starts to wobble even the most unflappable of hardcourt warriors.Yet at 7 p.m. on Thursday — seven years, four schools, a global pandemic and a torn ACL […]
12.22.24 edition: This week’s SRS B.C. senior boys basketball Top 50 rankings!
We’re back with Week 2 of featuring BCBBallMetrics.ca’s SRS Top 50 for B.C. boys basketball’s Quad-A through Single-A.Our thanks once again to Asher Mayan for providing this unique look! For a complete explanation, refer to last week’s debut rankings.And don’t forget that the official B.C. senior boys Top 10 rankings will appear right here at […]
12.18.24 B.C. girls basketball rankings: No. 1 Seaquam maintains top spot over No. 2 Brookswood after TBI Super 16 title-game win!
LANGLEY — The latest B.C. senior girls basketball rankings for 4A, 3A and 2A!QUAD-A1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-1)2 Brookswood Bobcats (Langley) (EV) (2)3 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (3)4 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (5)5 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (Surrey) (SF) (6)6 G.W. Graham Grizzlies (Chilliwack) (EV) (4)7 Okanagan Mission Huskies (Kelowna) (OK) (7)8 Kelowna […]
12.18.24: B.C. senior boys basketball rankings: Top fours hold the fort at all four tiers!
LANGLEY — Three weeks into the new season, and the province’s tier leaders looked to have settled into an early groove.That’s just another way of saying that last week’s top four in each classification remained the same, including the precise 1-2-3-4 order in Quad-, Triple- and Double-A.The lone change among that quartet?Vancouver’s SJS, swapped places […]
B.C. Boys Basketball SRS ranking system formula Top 50 groups all four tiers for interesting new look
LANGLEY — The B.C. senior boys basketball rankings we run weekly here at VarsityLetters.ca has always been and will continue to be a staple of our coverage.From a personal standpoint, as a former provincial ranker myself for much of the last quarter century, it remains the traditional vehicle for giving basketball fans in our province […]
A Sunday Read: Remembering Prentice Lenz (1971-2024), a farmer for all seasons and a coach for the ages
By HOWARD TSUMURA, VarsityLetters.caABBOTSFORD — In the parlance of his profession, Prentice Lenz tilled every inch of a basketball court with the same level of discipline, ingenuity and faith he practiced every time he’d crouch to put his hands in the earth.Farmer. Family man. Father figure. He was all three of those in ways in which […]
TBI 2024: Despite MVP Jordyn Nohr’s stirring second half for No. 2 Brookswood, it’s No. 1 Seaquam’s fast start and late poise that carry the day as Seahawks repeat as Super 16 champs!
LANGLEY — On a blustery, wind-whipped Saturday, power outages across the region threatened the cancellation of the eagerly-anticipated battle between the No. 1 Seaquam Seahawks and the No. 2 Brookswood Bobcats in the final of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational’s Super 16 championship final at the Langley Events Centre.Yet by the time the sun had set […]
TBI 2024: After lengthy power outage delay, Duchess Park’s game of Hide-and-Go-Seek keeps Condors loose in TBI Select 16 championship game win over Notre Dame!
LANGLEY — The Duchess Park Condors don’t sweat the small stuff.The reason?They’ve got each other.Retiring to its nearby team hotel during the power outage which threatened their Tsumura Basketball Invitational Select 16 championship game against the Notre Dame Jugglers, the Prince George squad had so much fun waiting it out, that when it came time […]