LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior boys Triple-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here regularly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraBOYSTRIPLE A (AT CENTRE COURT)DAY […]
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FINAL: 03.04.26 Day 1 reports from the 2026 B.C. senior boys DOUBLE-A Sweet 16!
LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior boys Double-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here regularly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraDOUBLE A (AT SOUTH COURT)DAY […]
FINAL: 03.04.26 Day 1 reports from the 2026 B.C. senior boys SINGLE-A Sweet 16!
LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior boys Single-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here regularly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraBOYSDAY 1No. 1 ST JOHN’S […]
TBI 2026: New dates this December for boys and girls Super 16 and Select 16 pools, plus other news as we turn 15 this year!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY TOWNSHIP — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational turns 15 years old this December, and that’s enough time that our traditional weeks on the B.C. boys and girls senior basketball calendar have put down some pretty deep roots.This coming December, however, the dates of the boys and the girls have been moved ahead […]
As BC boys Sweet 16 set for morning tip, we give you BCBM’s analytical take on all four March Madness brackets!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY — All season long, Varsity Letters has teamed with B.C. Basketball Metrics to present an analytics-driven view of the B.C. senior boys high school basketball world.With opening tip now just one sleep away, we’ve got more to whet your appetite heading into Wednesday’s four 8:30 a.m. opening tips at the LEC: […]
80 For 80: On the eve of the 80th B.C. senior boys tourney at LEC, an anniversary committee selects its 80 greatest players from all tiers!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — The old grey-haired wonder is still giving us all a show, and by just about every metric you check, it’s more popular than its ever been.Today, in honour of the 80th birthday of the B.C. High School Boys Basketball Tournament, set to tip off its four-day run tomorrow morning at 8:30 […]
With its interior defence at its suffocating best, Pipers hold their own kind of class reunion! After four years of chemistry building, Argyle tops Riverside in 4A final for school’s first-ever senior girls BC title!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsity LettersLANGLEY — High school reunions of any magnitude aren’t supposed to happen until at least a decade after graduation.Yet on Saturday night at the Langley Event Centre, it was pretty hard to deny the fact that North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers were going to try and sneak an extra one in about four […]
After 58 years, Vernon’s tireless Panthers ring the bell! Small but undaunted, MVP Chloe Collins and Co top Langley Christian for BC 3A title, buying in to a tireless work ethic espoused by coach Dave Tetrault!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Illusions are best defined as the picture we see when our brains take shortcuts to make sense of the world in real time.For just as surely as a straight stick’s image looks crooked when partially submerged in water, so too does a height-challenged basketball team seemingly grow bigger and stronger […]
Complete ‘jumbo-sized’ B.C. senior boys basketball championship draws are here! Plot the road map of your favourite schools as March Madness tips off March 4 at the LEC!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY — The draws are now official for all four tiers of competition as the Road to March Madness has bloomed! Here are the draws — CLICK ON THE EACH TIER’S CENTRED TAG BELOW FOR A FULL-SCREEN VERSION — for the 80th (Quad-A), the 12th (Triple-A), the 38th (Double-A) and the 56th (Single-A) […]
Led by forward Solene Jackson’s 30 points, 25 rebounds, No. 1 Holy Cross stands tallest in BC Double-A title win over No. 2 STM!
NO. 1 HOLY CROSS 81 NO. 3 ST. THOMAS MORE COLLEGIATE 51By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – There was a moment early in the third quarter of Saturday’s Double A final of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships when the desperation and ultimate futility of St. Thomas More’s defensive challenge reached an almost […]