Seaquam's Callie Brost passes out of a double team from St. Thomas More's Demicah Arnaldo (left) and Lauren Wong during Tsumura Basketball Invitational Super 16 opening-round action Dec. 10, 2025 at the Langley Event Centre’s Centre Court. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2025: We’ve gone final! All eight Day 1 game reports from girls Super 16 bracket at Tsumura Basketball Invitational are here!

LANGLEY — Day 1 of the girls 2025 TBI Super 16 tournament is in the books.Hope you enjoy all eight of our game reports here!— Howard Tsumura TOP HALF DRAWQUAD AARGYLE 80 JOHNSTON HEIGHTS 57By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — The Argyle Pipers have so much talent throughout the Grade 11-12 spectrum within its senior girls basketball program, […]

Sir Charles Tupper's Denira Dundas (left) feels the defence of Stella Oteyza and the rest of the RE Mountain Eagles during Tsumura Basketball Invitational Select 16 opening-round action Dec. 10, 2025 at the Langley Event Centre’s South Court. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2025: We’ve gone final! All eight Day 1 game reports from girls Select 16 bracket at Tsumura Basketball Invitational are here!

LANGLEY — Day 1 of the girls 2025 TBI Super 16 tournament is in the books.Hope you enjoy all eight of our game reports here!Our special thanks today to Ian French, Wilson Wong and Gary Ahuja for their work, without which this report would not be possible!— Howard TsumuraGIRLS SELECT 16QUAD AVALLEYVIEW 48 ARGYLE GOLD […]

St. Patricks' Riley Santa Juana splits the defence of Caleb Gomez (left) and Luka Guzina during TBI Super 16 championship final played Dec. 6, 2025 at the Langley Event Centre's South Court. (Photo by Jacob Mallari property of Langley Events Centre 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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In a TBI Super 16 final with a ‘pick your poison’ plot line, St. Pats maximize personnel to top Tammy in battle of No. 1’s!

ST. PATRICKS 78 TAMANAWIS 72By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — We may live in an era of three-point shooting, yet what if a head coach, over the course of devising his team’s defensive game plan decides that there is actually an even bigger threat present than a wide-open, wide-eyed shooter with the green light to let it […]

Who's playing who at TBI 2025? We've got the full boys and girls brackets right here. Exact game times to follow. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Tsumura Basketball Invitational ’25 draw release: Here are all four senior boys and girls brackets for our 2025 TBI tournaments set to tip off in December at the Langley Event Centre!

LANGLEY — The very best of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball is on its way to the Langley Events Centre over the first two weeks of December.Today, we present the four draws which will make up the Super 16 and Select 16 draws as the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals.All of the precise […]

Terry Fox's Jayson Imani and the rest of Port Coquitlam's Ravens bring a young core to the fore this season under veteran head coach Rich Chambers in the Super 16 draw at the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational Dec. 4-7 at the LEC. No. 10-seeded Fox faces No. 7 Kelowna in its opening-round clash. (Photo by Garrett James property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Boys 2024: Who’s playing who in both 16-team draws at Tsumura Basketball Invitational? We’ve got the full draws right here for the LEC’s preseason spectacular!

LANGLEY — It’s time to start the official countdown to the tip-off at the 2024 boys and girls Tsumura Basketball Invitationals, once again set to run front and centre over the first two weeks of December at the Langley Events Centre.Today, we will present the draws for the boys TBI (Dec. 4-7) which includes both […]

Langley Christian's Grace Bradshaw (right)breaks free past Burnaby Central's Jayla Huynh for a lay-up during Day 1 action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI GIRLS SUPER 16 DRAW: We’ve gone final! Read all eight game reports here!

LANGLEY — Day 1 is over…. we have game reports from every contest played in this bracket today! Thank you for your loyalty and join us again tomorrow for more from Day 2 at TBI 2023!GIRLSSUPER 16(All games played at Centre Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A4A No. 2 RIVERSIDE 92 4A No. 8 G.W. GRAHAM 38LANGLEY […]

With its logo featuring both the brain and a basketball, Bigger Than Basketball event founder Bradley Braich is turning the gathering point of the gymnasium into a place where it's just as easy to talk about mental health as it is to work on your jumper. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2023 All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: Five years his after mental health struggles nearly claimed him, ex-Yale hoops star Bradley Braich is a UBC neuroscience major whose life defines ‘Bigger Than Basketball’

Today, I wanted to share with you a little about the history of the most important story we have been able to tell here at Varsity Letters, and how that story’s subject has grown in ways which truly surpass the margins of the written page.Just weeks shy of five years ago, a courageous 17-year-old basketball […]

Riverside's Avery Sussex helped her Rapids to a TBI-title win in 2021 over the crosstown Terry Fox Ravens in what was a precursor to the 2022 B.C. senior girls Quad-A championships won by the Ravens. The 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational tips off a four-day run Wednesday and you can be sure there will be plenty of clues offered as to who might well win the 2023 B.C. crowns at Quad-A, Triple-A and Double-A. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Tsumura Basketball 2022: Our 32-team girls event tips off Wednesday in historic fashion with all four preseason No. 1’s set to take part!

LANGLEY — The 2022 senior girls Tsumura Basketball Invitational, set to open a four-day run Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre will unveil something of an historic opening-day draw.No official records have been kept, but our star-studded 32-team tournament, broken down into three separate draws this season, may well likely be the first to ever […]

We're looking for one more girls team to complete our field at the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Help! Tsumura Basketball Invitational looking for one more girls team for Dec. 14-17 tournament at Langley Events Centre!

LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Hello B.C. senior girls basketball head coaches.It’s Howard Tsumura here, and I am writing to you with news that we are looking to fill an opening — due to a very late cancellation — in one of our brackets at next month’s 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational (Dec. 14-17) at the Langley Events […]

Pictured in last season's B.C. senior girls Triple-A championship final against MEI is R.A. McMath Wildcats rising senior Marina Radocaj. The Cats begin play at TBI 2022 facing the Okanagan Mission Huskies. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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GIRLS Tsumura Basketball Invitational 2022: This season, the TBI enters its second decade with a 32-team field in three separate brackets!

LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to the countdown to the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals!We’re back bigger than ever as we start our second decade at the home of B.C. High School Basketball: The Langley Events Centre.The dates to mark on your hoops calendar?The boys tournament gets us underway with four days of the competition from Dec. […]