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Handsworth's Aidan Chubb (left) is one half of the Royals' twin tower front court attack. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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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

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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 […]

Langley Christian's Lainey Shelvey drives past Nicole Torozan during third-fourth place game at TBI 2019, Saturday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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02.05.20 edition: Varsity Letters BC boys and girls basketball rankings

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NORTH DELTA — VarsityLetters.ca is experiencing difficulties as it concerns our ability to post stories to this site.The issues are being dealt with and we ask for your patience over this time.Today, both boys and girls rankings will be added to this posting as they become available. Please continue to check back with us through […]

Cutting a path through the Centennial Centaurs this past December at TBI 2019 is Kelowna's Jonathon Haughton. The senior guard and the rest of the Owls play host to this weekend's Western Canada Invitational. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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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

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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.

Byrne Creek's Bobby Mabeny hit eight treys in leading the Bulldogs past No. 2 GW Graham, and into Saturday morning's Final Four at the Robert Bateman Timberwolves Classic in Abbotsford. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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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

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ABBOTSFORD — It was hard not to look at the final score and not have your jaw figuratively drop.

Yale's Jauquin Bennett-Boire was named MVP as the Yale Lions won the 2015 B.C. Triple-A title. ) (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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The diamond jubilee bracket! Here’s how our 75th anniversary B.C. boys all-time first-round games played out

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NORTH DELTA — Our learned basketball elders have spoken.After what were surely furious debates, they have delivered the opening-round results in our BCHSBBA 75th anniversary All-Time B.C. Boys Basketball Tournament Bracket.As one member of the panel said to me: “If half the people are happy and the other half furious, then I guess we nailed […]

The sweetest moment! Richmond's Louis Johnson, the 1991 MVP, shears the nylon at one end of the PNE Agrodome court after the Super Colts topped Burnaby Central for all of the spoils 29 years ago. (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Quad A: Inside the diamond jubilee regionals! It’s Super Colts x 2, plus Raz-ama-Kaz, the Mikes and more

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NORTH DELTA — Welcome to Quadrant A of our 75th anniversary All-Time B.C. High School Boys Basketball Tournament Bracket.

The 1961 Magee Blackshirts in action against the Semiahmoo Totems in the 1961 single-tier B.C. boys basketball championship, played before 5,000 fans at UBC's War Memorial Gymnasium. (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Quad B: Inside the diamond jubilee regionals! The A’s (Aldergrove, Abby, Argyle) have it, so too do the Owls and the Irish

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NORTH DELTA — Welcome to Quadrant B of our 75th anniversary All-Time B.C. High School Boys Basketball Tournament Bracket.

Steveston Packers Gareth Davies (left) and Ryan Brown celebrate a B.C. championship win over Richmond in 1984. (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Quad C: Inside the diamond jubilee regionals! Kudos to a Double-A dynasty, as well the Royals, Ravens, Gators and Huskies

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NORTH DELTA — Welcome to Quadrant C of our 75th anniversary All-Time B.C. High School Boys Basketball Tournament Bracket.

Yale's Riley Braich was a first-team all-star when his Lions won the 2015 B.C. Quad-A title over the Terry Fox Ravens. The 2015 Lions will face the 1995 Aldergrove Totems in the first round of our 75th anniversary, 64-team all-time fantasy tournament. (Photo property of the B.C. High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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The bracket unveiled: The 64 greatest BC high school teams plug themselves in for a 75th anniversary ‘diamond jubilee’ run to March Madness

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LANGLEY — The greatest of all time?It’s an eternal question… a question that in almost every instance shy of undiscovered scientific technology, ultimately provides no clear-cut answer.But oh, what fun we can have debating this one: Which team is the greatest in the 75-year history of the B.C. senior boys high school basketball championships?The basketball […]