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
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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

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	PD
San Sebastian Stags	11	3	.786	--
Benilde Blazers	10	4	.714	1
PCU school colors 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 Help 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 school colors PCU	106	87

See also

• UAAP Season 65

Preceded by NCAA Season 77

NCAA Philippines seasons 2002-2003

Succeeded by NCAA Season 79