NCAA Season 78

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NCAA Season 78
Host schoolSan Beda school colors San Beda College
Tagline"Pursuing the Culture of Peace through Sports"
General
SeniorsLetran school colors Letran Knights
JuniorsLetran school colors Letran Squires
Seniors' champions
Sport
Men
Women
Basketball SSC-R school colors San Sebastian N/A
Juniors' champions
Sport
Boys
Girls
Basketball San Beda school colors San Beda N/A
(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[]

Main article: NCAA Season 78 basketball tournaments

Elimination round[]

Pos Team W L PCT GB Qualification
1 SSC-R school colors San Sebastian Stags 11 3 .786 — Twice-to-beat in the semifinals
2 CSB school colors Benilde Blazers 10 4 .714 1
3 PCU school colors PCU Dolphins 9 5 .643[a] 2 Twice-to-win in the semifinals
4 JRU school colors JRU Heavy Bombers 9 5 .643[a] 2
5 Mapua school colors Mapúa Cardinals 7 7 .500[b] 4
6 Letran school colors Letran Knights 7 7 .500[b] 4
7 San Beda school colors San Beda Red Lions (H) 2 12 .143 9
8 UPHD school colors 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:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head record: PCU 1-1 JRU; PCU +5
  2. ^ a b Head-to-head record: Mapúa 1-1 Letran; Mapúa +6

Men's playoffs[]

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

See also[]

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