Steve Nash of St. Michaels University School in Victoria was the most valuable player of the 1992 British Columbia senior boys AAA basketball tournament, leading the Blue Devils to the provincial championship in the most lopsided final in the tournament's 47-year history: a 76-48 win over the Pitt Meadows Marauders.
In the final, Nash scored 31 points with 11 rebounds, 8 assists and 4 steals. Over four tournament games St. Michaels outscored its opponents 356-225 and finished the season 50-4. Nash had 24 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists in the quarter-final against the defending champion Richmond Colts, and 16 points, 9 rebounds, 9 assists and 7 steals in the semi-final against West Vancouver.
Nash, a 6-foot-1 guard, had transferred from Mount Douglas Secondary and sat out his entire Grade 11 season under transfer rules before his championship Grade 12 year. He was bound for Santa Clara University. He went on to become a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player.
Sources: game reports compiled at From Naismith to Nash (naismithtonash.ca), B.C. high school basketball history, drawing on contemporary Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province coverage.