NCAA Season 78

NCAA Season 78
""Pursuing the Culture of Peace through Sports""
Host school San Beda College
General champions
Seniors  Letran Knights
Juniors  Letran Squires
Seniors' champions
Sport Men Women
Basketball  SSC-R N/A
Juniors' champions
Sport Boys Girls
Basketball  San Beda N/A
(Ex) = Exhibition; (DS) = Demonstration Sport
< Season 77 NCAA seasons Season 79 >

NCAA Season 78 is the 2002-2003 season of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines), which was hosted by San Beda College, The season opened on June 29, 2002, at the Araneta Coliseum.

This was the first season of Studio 23's coverage (later ABS-CBN Sports+Action) has been produced by ABS-CBN Sports which the NCAA games every Wednesday and Friday afternoon at 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. The commentators were Bill Velasco, Sev Sarmenta and Bob Novales were presenters and alongside Butch Maniego, Allan Gregorio and others.

Basketball

Elimination round

Qualified for semifinals with twice to beat advantage
Qualified for semifinals
TeamWLPCTGBPD
 San Sebastian Stags 11 3 .786 --
 Benilde Blazers 10 4 .714 1
 PCU Dolphins 9 5 .643 2 +4
 JRU Heavy Bombers 9 5 .643 2 -4
 Mapúa Cardinals 7 7 .500 4 +6
 Letran Knights 7 7 .500 4 -6
 San Beda Red Lions 2 12 .143 9
 Perpetual Altas 1 13 .071 10

Host team in boldface.

Men's playoffs

  Semifinals
#1 & #2 have twice-to-beat advantage		 Finals
Best-of-three series
                       
1   San Sebastian 102*    
4   JRU 96    
Number of asterisks (*) denotes the number of overtime periods.   1   San Sebastian 79 86
  2   CSB 78 69
2   CSB 93 95
3   PCU 106 87  

See also

Preceded by
NCAA Season 77		 NCAA Philippines seasons
2002-2003 		Succeeded by
NCAA Season 79
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