LANGLEY —The first potential showdown between the top two teams in the most recent B.C. senior girls high school Top 10 Quad-A rankings.
(See full Top 10s for all four tiers below)
A tournament weekend beginning its four-day run Wednesday with 23 of its 32 total teams occupying Top 10 spots between the province’s four tiers of competition.
And a showcase Super 16 bracket in which nine of its participants sit in the Top 10 of the Quad-A rankings.
Welcome to the 2024 edition of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre.
Our off-season efforts to painstakingly project two separate blue-chip pools of 16 teams (Super 16 and Select 16) seem to be walking in lockstep with the latest set of rankings.
To follow all the action, the LEC is the place to be.
If you can’t make it, you can take advantage of the free livestream at TFSETV.ca
Myself and the Langley Event Centre’s amazing Gary Ahuja will do our best to provide as much coverage as is possible for two old men with big hearts on Wednesday’s Day 1, given the rapid-fire nature of a simultaneous 16-game day.
I will team with sophomore Varsity Letters reporter Nic Hauka on Day 2 to provide Elite 8 scribblings, and then provide solo reportage on this site from Friday Final Four and Championship Saturday rounds.
We also welcome back Trinity Western Spartans women’s head coach Cheryl Jean-Paul who is set to join me as analyst for my call of Friday’s two Super 16 semifinals (6:15, 7:45 p.m.) and Saturday’s Select (3 p.m.) and Super 16 )4:45 p.m.) championship finals.
Hauka and newcomer Keanen Tregaskis will team up to broadcast a number of Friday’s games on the consolation side of the draw.
For full game times and the tournament draw for both pools, click here.
Hope to see you later this week at the LEC for the best of B.C. girls high school basketball!
Howard Tsumura
QUAD-A
1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-1)
2 Brookswood Bobcats (Langley) (EV) (2)
3 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (6)
4 G.W. Graham Grizzlies (Chilliwack) (EV) (4)
5 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (3)
6 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (Surrey) (SF) (5)
7 Okanagan Mission Huskies (Kelowna) (OK) (7)
8 Oak Bay Breakers (Victoria) (VI) (10)
9 Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils (Coquitlam) (FN) (HM)
10 Kelowna Owls (OK) (8)
Honourable mention — Yale Lions (Abbotsford) (EV) (HM), Semiahmoo Thunderbirds (Surrey) (SF) (HM), Claremont Spartans (Victoria) (VI) (8), Fleetwood Park Dragons (Surrey) (SF) (HM)
TRIPLE-A
1 MEI Eagles (Abbotsford) (EV)
2 Sa-Hali Sabres (Kamloops) (OK)
3 College Heights Cougars (Prince George) (NC)
4 Duchess Park Condors (Prince George) (NC)
5 Vernon Panthers (OK)
6 Mark Isfeld Ice (Courtenay) (VI)
7 South Kamloops Titans (OK)
8 R.A. McMath Wildcats (Richmond) (SF)
9 Robert Bateman Timberwolves (Abbotsford) (EV)
10 Crofton House Falcons (Vancouver) (VSS)
Honourable mention — Pitt Meadows Marauders (FN), Little Flower Academy Angels (Vancouver) (VSS), Valleyview Vikings (Kamloops) (T-OK), Alberni District Armada (VI), Richmond Colts (SF), Sir Charles Tupper Tigers (Vancouver) (VSS)
DOUBLE-A
1 St. Michaels University School Blue Jags (VI)
2 Holy Cross Crusaders (Surrey) (SF)
3 Langley Christian Lightning (Langley) (EV)
4 Notre Dame Jugglers (Vancouver) (VSS)
5 Southridge Storm (Surrey) (SF)
6 St. Thomas More Knights (Burnaby) (FN)
7 Britannia Bruins (Vancouver) (VSS)
8 Pacific Academy Breakers (Surrey) (SF)
9 Abbotsford Christian Knights (EV)
10 Lambrick Park Pride (Victoria) (VI)
Honourable mention — Mulgrave Titans (West Vancouver) (VSS), St. Patricks Celtics (Vancouver) (VSS), Brentwood College (Mill Bay) (VI), Westsyde Whundas (Kamloops) (T-OK)
SINGLE-A
1 Unity Christian Flames (Chilliwack) (EV)
2 Pacific Christian Pacers (Victoria) (VI)
3 Sir Alexander Mackenzie Grizzlies (Hagensborg) (NW)
4 Credo Christian Kodiaks (Langley) (EV)
5 Cedars Christian Eagles (Prince George) (NC)
6 King’s Christian Thunder (Salmon Arm) (T-OK)
7 Nanaimo Christian Trail Blazers (VI)
8 Immaculata Mustangs (Kelowna) (T-OK)
9 Meadowridge Gryphons (Maple Ridge)
10 Bulkley Valley Christian Royals (Smithers) (NC)
Honourable mention — St. Margarets (Victoria) (VI), Grand Forks Wolves (KOO), Duncan Christian Chargers (VI), Aberdeen Hall Gryphons (Kelowna) (T-OK)
ZONE KEY
Eastern Valley — EV
Fraser North — FN
South Fraser — SF
Kootenays — KOO
North Central — NC
North West — NW
Thompson-Okanagan — T-OK
Vancouver Island — VI
Vancouver Sea To Sky — VSS
(All rankings courtesy of B.C. School Sports)
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