Welcome to Day 2 of TBI girls 2024!We’re on to the quarterfinals today in the Select 16 poolPlease check back througHout the day as Nic Hauka covers the day’s four championship round games!NOTRE DAME 50 SOUTH KAMLOOPS 28(STORY BY NICOLAS HAUKA, Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — The old saying defence wins championships is cliche, but […]
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FINAL: TBI Super 16 quarters produce Argyle-Brookswood, Seaquam-Riverside card for Final Four Friday!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of TBI girls 2024!We’re on to the quarterfinals today in the Super 16 poolPlease check back throughout the day as Howard Tsumura covers the day’s four championship round games!ARGYLE 90 LORD TWEEDSMUIR 74 LANGLEY — If the Argyle Pipers do not have the greatest overall wingspan of any team in […]
12.11.24 edition: BC Boys Top 10 Hoops rankings! Semi, Fox make 4A climb, STM takes over as AAA No. 1
LANGLEY — Here are the second set of B.C. boys high school in-season basketball rankings.BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Spectrum Thunder (Saanich) (VI) (LW-1)2 Dover Bay Dolphins (Nanaimo) (VI) (2)3 Oak Bay Bays (Victoria) (VI) (3)4 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (VSS) (4)5 St. George’s Saints (Vancouver) (VSS) (5)6 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF) (6)7 Semiahmoo […]
SELECT 16 FINAL: Our complete wrap up from Day 1 TBI GIRLS 2024!
LANGLEY — Welcome girls basketball fans!Day 1 of the TBI Select 16 draw is upon us.Please keep checking back throughout the day as we do our best to update this post with live games reports.We will try to get photos from as many games as we can, but there are no guarantees.Thanks for following along, […]
SUPER 16 FINAL: Our complete wrap up from Day 1 TBI GIRLS 2024!
LANGLEY — Welcome girls basketball fans!Day 1 of the TBI Super 16 draw is upon us.Please keep checking back throughout the day as we do our best to update this post with live games reports.We will try to get photos from as many games as we can, but there are no guarantees.Thanks for following along, […]
B.C. Junior Boys Basketball Top 10: First in-season poll has St. George’s, Argyle, New West and Van College the early Final Four pick when JV fever hits LEC’s 32-team tourney Feb. 22-25!
The B.C. Junior Boys Basketball Association checks in with its first poll of the season.It’s the start of the run-up to to the 2025 B.C. invitational championship at the Langley Events Centre Feb. 22-25.Last season’s champions from Terry Fox Secondary in PoCo are now competing at the senior varsity level and opened some eyes this […]
TBI Girls 2024: As Quad-A B.C. champ Seaquam finally achieves its ‘veteran’ status, North Delta’s Seahawks bring new level of maturity as Super 16’s No. 1-seeded team!
NORTH DELTA — For it’s entire existence as an up-and-coming group of hoops wunderkinds, the Seaquam Seahawks have had a built-in motivation to carve a niche of their own in the B.C. girls basketball world.Checks its roster from the B.C. junior champs of 2022 right through the B.C. senior Quad-A champs of this past season, […]
TBI Girls 2024: Our strongest field ever is filled with schools from latest Top 10 rankings! It’s 9 of 10 AAAA, 5 of 7 AAA, 7 of 8 AA and 1A’s Top 2! Are you ready?
LANGLEY —The first potential showdown between the top two teams in the most recent B.C. senior girls high school Top 10 Quad-A rankings.(See full Top 10s for all four tiers below)A tournament weekend beginning its four-day run Wednesday with 23 of its 32 total teams occupying Top 10 spots between the province’s four tiers of […]
TBI 2024 Select 16 Final: How King George coach Darko Kulic topped No. 1 Collingwood with hoops game-plan designed around NFL’s 2013 Super Bowl champion Seahawks! Huh?
LANGLEY — Sometimes, you can’t help but think Darko Kulic is a genius.Quirky, unconventional and unapologetic are three other ways to describe the persona of the King George Dragons head coach, a guy who loves his players and truly uses the game of hoops to teach them about life.It’s all true.He won’t deny it.But about […]
A Sunday Read: For Dover Bay’s TBI Super 16 champ Dolphins, why an honorary assist to Taylor Swift and a ‘no-cell phone’ policy symbolize a truly holistic hoops weekend!
LANGLEY — When the Dover Bay Dolphins senior boys basketball team prints up its final 2024-25 season statistics this March, they may want to add one new name to the box score even though she never played for the team.The name?Taylor Swift.The stat?One assist.Even though the pop icon had the nerve to no-show for the […]