King George senior Darko Karac helped lead his team past Zeru Abera and the STM Knights en route to TBI Select 16 MVP honours during championship game action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Saturday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong protected image 2023, All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023’s Championship Saturday: Heart of a champion still beating as B.C. 2A champ King George tops STM Knights for Select 16 title!

TBI 2023 SELECT 16 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALKING GEORGE 76 ST. THOMAS MORE 64LANGLEY — Darko Kulic admitted that he barely slept on Friday night.Curiosity got the better of the head coach of the varsity boys basketball team at Vancouver’s King George Secondary after his Dragons moved themselves into the Select 16 championship game against Burnaby’s St. […]

King George's Darko Karac (right) is guarded by Owen Maloney during third-day semifinal action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Friday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023’s Final Four Friday: King George’s unflappable senior Darko Karac puts finishing touch on dramatic semifinal comeback win over Heritage Woods!

LANGLEY — Darko Karac never freezes, even on those December nights when he arrives at a basketball court with ice in his veins.That was about the only diagnosis you could deliver if you happened to watch the King George Dragons’ 6-foot-4 senior guard do his magic over the final 78 seconds of one of the […]

Burnaby South's Tyler Crossley is surrounded by St. George's Saints during second-day quarterfinal action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Thursday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023 Super 16 Day 2: It’s quarterfinals day here at the LEC and we’ve got the complete scoop from all four games!

LANGLEY — We’ve gone final in the Super 16 bracket!Friday’s Final Four now set.6:15 p.m. — Calgary-St. Mary’s vs. Santa Margarita Catholic7:45 p.m. — St. George’s vs. St. Patrick’sSUPER 16QUARTERFINALS (all games at South Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUAD ASANTA MARGARITA 83 SPECTRUM 49LANGLEY — When Justin Hinrichsen returns to the Langley Events Centre on Friday with […]

G.W. Graham Grizzlies' Lincoln Larson (left) and Christian Beck close in on North Delta's Gurdas Dillon during opening day 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 SELECT 16 DRAW: Day 1 is complete at the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational and we’ve got all eight game-by-game reports!

LANGLEY — Day 1 of the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational is now complete.Enjoy our game reports!SELECT 16(All games at South Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUAD ANORTH DELTA 66  G.W. GRAHAM 50LANGLEY — The North Delta Huskies are offering a pretty big early clue as to what kind of team they aspire to be this season.And if the […]

SoCal's Santa Margarita Eagles will open play at the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Wednesday (7:45 p.m.) against Burnaby's Byrne Creek Bulldogs. (Photo courtesy Santa Margarita athletics 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Boys 2023: Santa Margarita Catholic’s Eagles fly north! Klay Thompson’s alma mater brings pulse of SoCal hoops to Tsumura Basketball Invitational! Day 1 debut Wednesday vs. Byrne Creek!

LANGLEY — Everything about their world seems soaked in culture and the history of SoCal basketball.Check out this week’s Los Angeles Times’ Top 25 boys high school rankings for its own Southland region, and there are the Santa Margarita Catholic Eagles sitting at No. 19.Do a little surfing through your favourite search engine and it’s […]

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Tsumura Basketball 2023: Follow your favourite TBI teams with our complete four-day brackets for all 64 of our boys and girls entrants!

LANGLEY — This past week we unveiled the opening-day draws in each of our four separate 16-team boys and girls pools at next month’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational senior boys and girls tournaments at the Langley Events Centre.Today, we’ve got the complete Wednesday-through-Saturday brackets for all four divisions of play.BOYS (Dec. 6-9)SUPER 16Click on link below […]

Mulgrave's Eva Ruse (right) towers over Holy Cross' Kaitelyn Takeuchi during Day 3 Final Four action at the 2023 B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. Last March. Both teams return to the LEC next month for the Tsumura Basketball Invitational. (Photo by Mark Steffens property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Girls Draws – Tsumura Basketball 2023: Who’s playing who in Round 1 as the best of B.C.’s very best gather Dec. 13-16 at the LEC!

LANGLEY — The very best of B.C.’s best.That’s the quickest and neatest way to sum up the 32 senior girls basketball teams who can now begin preparations for their opening-round opponents at B.C.’s home away from home for high school hoops.That’s right, today we unveil the two 16-team independent draws which will compete at the […]

Both Walnut Grove's Kiera Pemberton (9) and Luisa Buonarroti converge on Riverside's Avery Sussex on Saturday night in the TBI Super 16 final at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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A SUNDAY READ: How a scorer for the ages and the cast of B.C.’s No. 1 team produced a classic Tsumura Basketball final! Here’s to Riverside, Walnut Grove and the incomparable Kiera Pemberton!

No. 1 RIVERSIDE 73 No. 2 WALNUT GROVE 68By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Saturday night’s championship final of the showcase Super 16 bracket here at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational produced not only a worthy champion, but yet another reminder that we are in the midst of what might be the most dominant individual streak of scoring […]

TBI Local 8 championship MVP Sevene Grewal (left) battles with Maple Ridge's Kayleigh Mark on Friday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Tsumura Basketball 2022: Tweedy’s MVP Sevene Grewal puts her heart on the three-point line, leads Panthers past Ramblers for Local 8 title!

LORD TWEEDSMUIR 69 MAPLE RIDGE 43By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — In the tradition of all great shooters, Sevene Grewal knew just how to shake off the doldrums of a slow day on the court.She trusted that shot of hers, and in the end, it rewarded both her and the rest of Surrey’s Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers with […]

Okanagan Mission's Kanani Coon helped her Kelowna-based Huskies past Sir Winston Churchill and into Friday's Final Four at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Super 16 quarters: Three seasons after winning 2019 Tsumura title, Okanagan Mission tops Churchill for Friday Final Four berth!

OKANAGAN MISSION 57 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 49BY Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Last season’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational just managed to beat the shutdown of all high school basketball tournaments in the new year owing to the spread of the Omicron variant.Still, the threat was still real enough to keep up-country teams on a travel ban and off […]