VANCOUVER — The eight remaining Canada West men’s basketball teams have no margin for error under the conference’s new and radically-revamped playoff system.
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The Joy of John Oliver’s basketball Jokers: After 27 years, ‘perpetual underdogs’ have their day, punch tickets to B.C. Quad-A championships!
VANCOUVER — Before he can can even begin to express the joy these days that comes from being a John Oliver Joker, Pat Lee offers an apology to the curious reporter at the other end of his cel phone connection.
Who made the Diamond Jubilee Elite 8? Let’s just say the 1970’s looking like a new Golden Age!
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“…Hey, she just pulled a Dirk!” UFV’s fab frosh Tuchscherer making like a U Sports’ Nowitzki
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Tayler Drynan: Simon Fraser’s senior point guard never missed a moment along the road to her Clan home finale
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UFV’s Matt Cooley: How a basketball underdog with a passion for passing delivered his signature senior season
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B.C. girls championships 2020: Rick Mark, a high school hoops lifer, helps get Handsworth Royals back to The Big Dance
NORTH VANCOUVER — Absence makes a basketball coach’s heart grow fonder, and in the case of Rick Mark, you can almost hear that excited pulse the second his voice comes over the telephone wires.“I thought I was getting too old for this, but after 15 years off, here I am again,” laughed Mark, 70, as […]
02.05.20 edition: Varsity Letters BC boys and girls basketball rankings
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Western Canada 2020: No. 3 Owls bring the best to Kelowna! No. 1 Rebels, No. 4 Royals, No. 6 Saints joined by Alberta, Manitoba’s best
KELOWNA — Like every head coach hosting an invitational tournament, the one accepted advantage is the built-in ability to schedule as cushy a first-round opponent as is possible.
T-Wolves Classic 2020: Byrne Creek stuns No. 2 GW Graham 135-128 in 3OT Elite 8 thriller as Mabeny drops 47 points for winners
ABBOTSFORD — It was hard not to look at the final score and not have your jaw figuratively drop.