VIDEO: Historic comeback by Vancouver Bandits<\/p>\n
Published 11:34 am Sunday, July 19, 2026<\/p>\n
It was the largest comeback in Vancouver Bandits history<\/p>\n
Vancouver\u2019s Jarrell Eddie grabbed the defensive rebound to ignite the fast break before Shamar Givance knocked down the game-winning jumper, sending the Country Night crowd at Langley Events Centre home celebrating an improbable 93-92 victory.<\/p>\n
With the victory, the Bandits have qualified for the CEBL playoffs for a seventh season in a row.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Trailing by 22 points, it looked like it simply wasn\u2019t the Vancouver Bandits\u2019 night.<\/p>\n
Bandits chipped away at the deficit, cutting it to 10 heading into Target Score Time before eventually pulling even at 91 against the visiting Montreal Alliance.<\/p>\n
Alliance then went to the free throw line with a chance to seal the victory. Instead, Jack Hemphill made the first but missed the second, leaving the door open.<\/p>\n
The win moves Vancouver into a tie for first place atop the Canadian Elite Basketball League\u2019s Western Conference at 12-7, while Montreal falls to 8-11 and remains fifth in the Eastern Conference, just outside the playoff picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur mindset, our will to not lose,\u201d said Bandits interim head coach Rans Brempong about what changed with the team trailing 68-46 with just over four minutes to play in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019ve told the team is the gift and the curse: we can be as good as we want to be. I\u2019m proud of them. They showed what we could do, how we could play defense and how that translates to offense, but we got to be able to do that consistently. It takes discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne stop at a time, one possession at a time. You can\u2019t get it all back at one time. So just go out there, get a stop, hopefully get a bucket. Get a stop, get a bucket, get a stop, get a bucket,\u201d said Vancouver\u2019s Tyrese Samuel, who led the team with 24 points, eight rebounds, and six assists.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think we did that at a really high rate, especially going into the fourth. It showed the fight that we actually have and we need to continue going into every game, starting with the fight that we ended the game with.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel was one of three Bandits to score in double figures, joined by Eddie with 18 points and James Karnik, who recorded a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Both were making their Bandits debuts, although Karnik had previously played for the organization and only arrived the morning of the game.<\/p>\n
For Alliance coach Jermaine Smalls, the loss felt like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve said to them and I\u2019ve said to other people, we win the four quarters, but we don\u2019t win the fifth quarter,\u201d he said, alluding to Target Score Time.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut at the end of the day, I\u2019m just proud of the effort we gave. And you know what? We missed the free throw to win the game, so it\u2019s part of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Montreal had five players score in double figures, led by 17 points apiece from Jack Hemphill and Blondeau Tchoukuidgno. Kevin Osawe, Prince Oduro and Keeshawn Barthelemy each added 13.<\/p>\n
The Bandits will head out on a two-game road trip, visiting the Calgary Surge on July 21 before facing the Winnipeg Sea Bears on July 23 in a matchup between the teams tied for first place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s next home game at Envision Financial Court at Langley Events Centre is on July 25, 6 p.m. against the Saskatoon Mamba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Historic comeback by Vancouver Bandits Published 11:34 am Sunday, July 19, 2026 It was the largest comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-812769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}