NCAA Season 78

NCAA Season 78
Host school	San Beda College
General champions
Seniors	Letran Knights
Juniors	Letran Squires
Seniors' champions
Juniors' champions
	(NT) = No tournament; (DS) = Demonstration Sport;; (Ex) = Exhibition;

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

Pos	Team	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	San Sebastian Stags	11	3	.786	—	Twice-to-beat in the semifinals
2	Benilde Blazers	10	4	.714	1	Twice-to-beat in the semifinals
3	PCU Dolphins	9	5	.643[lower-alpha 1]	2	Twice-to-win in the semifinals
4	JRU Heavy Bombers	9	5	.643[lower-alpha 1]	2	Twice-to-win in the semifinals
5	Mapúa Cardinals	7	7	.500[lower-alpha 2]	4
6	Letran Knights	7	7	.500[lower-alpha 2]	4
7	San Beda Red Lions (H)	2	12	.143	9
8	Perpetual Altas	1	13	.071	10

Source: ABS-CBN Sports
Rules for classification: 1) winning percentage; 2) if tied for #2 and #4, one-game playoff; 3) head-to-head record; 4) head-to-head point differential; 5) overall point differential
(H) Host.
Notes:

Head-to-head differential: JRU +5, PCU −5
Head-to-head differential: Mapúa +6, Letran −6

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	Benilde	78	69
2	Benilde	93	95
3	PCU	106	87

National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) seasons
Pre-war era	1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42
Post-war era	1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
Final Four era	1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21

NCAA Season 78

Basketball

Elimination round

Men's playoffs

See also