LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the girls 2025 TBI Select 16 tournament.Keep checking back throughout the day as we do our best to update you, our loyal Varsity Letters readers, with game reports from all eight contests.Note that games are not arranged by tip-off time, but by their placing in each of the […]
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12.09.25 edition: With TBI tip-off Wednesday, here’s your B.C. girls high school basketball Top 10 rankings!
LANGLEY — With the 2025 girls TBI beginning a four-day run Wednesday, keep these rankings close at hand as you follow both the Super 16 and Select 16 brackets at the Langley Events Centre.GIRLSQUAD-A1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-2) 2 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (4) 3 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (1)4 G.W. Graham Grizzlies […]
“Small town but gritty” Fernie Falcons make their Tsumura Basketball Invitational debut Wednesday with experienced, tall-timbered line-up hoping it’s a dress rehearsal for February provincials!
By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — The Fernie Falcons are soaring due west to the Langley Events Centre to start their 2025-26 season.In past seasons, the normal practice for the Double-A school from the the extreme southeast corner of the province, would be to board a bus and head out to all points east of the Alberta […]
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 […]
Mustangs find their giddy-up late! L.A. Matheson gallops past King George to claim TBI Select 16 championship title!
By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — As wild horses brought to this continent from Europe, mustangs have, in a broad sense, come to symbolize freedom in the new world.If that’s the case, then L.A. Matheson Secondary’s Mustangs are indeed perfectly named.The Surrey school’s senior boys basketball team is at its best when its pace hits a full-on […]
TBI Super 16 Day 3: We’ve gone final on Final Four Friday! Read our game reports here!
By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Welcome to our Final Four Friday here in the Super 16 draw.TAMANAWIS 62 TERRY FOX 52By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — The Tamanwis Wildcats senior boys basketball team showed up at the Langley Events Centre for the provincial Quad-A basketball championships last March like the walking wounded, and because of it, they lasted […]
TBI Select 16 Day 3: We’ve gone final on Final Four Friday! Read our game reports here!
By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Welcome to our Final Four Friday here in the Select 16 draw.L.A. MATHESON 93 COLLINGWOOD 76By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — The Comeback Kids, aka West Vancouver’s Collingwood Cavaliers, mounted a fourth-quarter rally from 13 points down on Thursday to beat Brentwood College and earn a berth in Friday’s TBI Select 16 Final […]
We’ve gone final of Day 2 of TBI 2025’s Super 16 bracket! Read all four quarterfinal game reports here!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Quarterfinal Thursday here at the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.We’ve gone final for the night. Here are all four game reports:SUPER 16(South Court)DRAW AST. PATRICK 99 ARGYLE 72LANGLEY — There is something to be said for precision, that united state of mind and body that has best been manifested during the first […]
We’ve gone final of Day 2 of TBI 2025’s Select 16 bracket! Read all four quarterfinal game reports here!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Quarterfinal Thursday here at the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.We’ve gone final for the night. You can read all four of our game reports here. Thanks to Gary Kingston, Gary Ahuja and Wilson Wong for their help tonight in producing this report.SELECT 16(Centre Court)DRAW ACOLLINGWOOD 76 BRENTWOOD COLLEGE 67By GARY KINGSTON (Special […]
We’ve gone final at Day 1 of Super 16 at Tsumura Basketball Invitational! A day of upset and classics as four Top 10 Quad-A teams lose!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2025 boys Tsumura Basketball Invitational and our eight Super 16 bracket games.We’ve gone final for Day 1. Here are all eight game reports, plus tomorrow’s schedule on the championship side of the draw with all games being played at the LEC’s South Court.Before we get to all […]