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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
TBI 2024 Select 16 Final: How King George coach Darko Kulic topped No. 1 Collingwood with hoops game-plan designed around NFL’s 2013 Super Bowl champion Seahawks! Huh?
LANGLEY — Sometimes, you can’t help but think Darko Kulic is a genius.Quirky, unconventional and unapologetic are three other ways to describe the persona of the King George Dragons head coach, a guy who loves his players and truly uses the game of hoops to teach them about life.It’s all true.He won’t deny it.But about […]
A Sunday Read: For Dover Bay’s TBI Super 16 champ Dolphins, why an honorary assist to Taylor Swift and a ‘no-cell phone’ policy symbolize a truly holistic hoops weekend!
LANGLEY — When the Dover Bay Dolphins senior boys basketball team prints up its final 2024-25 season statistics this March, they may want to add one new name to the box score even though she never played for the team.The name?Taylor Swift.The stat?One assist.Even though the pop icon had the nerve to no-show for the […]
TBI 2024 Super 16 Semis: So just how did underdog St. Thomas More upset Vancouver College? Here’s the empowering details!
LANGLEY — The St. Thomas More Knights of 2024-25 first gained their notiriety in the B.C. high school basketball world by winning the junior provincial title in 2023 as the No. 11 seed in the massive event’s 32-team bracket.As that tournament’s history will tell you, it’s not always a translateable guarantee of success at the […]
TBI 2024 Super 16 Semis: Hey, Joe it’s time to score! Dover Bay’s G10 Linder wins grand battle with St Pats’ Santa Juana!
LANGLEY — On a team filled with talent, being able to find the right player with that true point guard mentality is never a guaranteed thing.Go ahead, try to find that selfless playmaker you can trust to put the team’s overall well-being above any pursuit of individualism.But, in those times when schematics change and situations […]
FINAL: Day 3 TBI 2024 Select 16 Final Four Friday Game Reports! Collingwood to face King George in final!
LANGLEY — We’ve gone final on Final Four Friday here at the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.The Collingwood Cavaliers and King George Dragons are set to do battle at 3 p.m. in a Sea-to-Sky conference final for the Select 16 crown. Both game reports are now published below.Howard TsumuraKING GEORGE 51 BROOKSWOOD 44LANGLEY — The King George […]