NCAA Season 78

NCAA Season 78
NCAA Season 78
	"Pursuing the Culture of Peace through Sports"
Host school	San Beda College
General
Seniors	Letran Knights
Juniors	Letran Squires
Seniors' champions
Sport
Sport
Basketball
Juniors' champions
Sport
Sport
Basketball
	(NT) = No tournament; (DS) = Demonstration Sport;; (Ex) = Exhibition;

NCAA Season 78 is the 2002–03 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^[a]	2	Twice-to-win in the semifinals
4	JRU Heavy Bombers	9	5	.643^[a]	2	Twice-to-win in the semifinals
5	Mapúa Cardinals	7	7	.500^[b]	4
6	Letran Knights	7	7	.500^[b]	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) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head record: PCU 1-1 JRU; PCU +5
^ ^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 series)



1	San Sebastian		102*

4	JRU		96
				1	San Sebastian	79	86

				2	Benilde	78	69
2	Benilde	93	106

3	PCU	95*	87

Number of asterisks (*) denotes the number of overtime periods.

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Related	NCAA South

Basketball

Elimination round

Men's playoffs

See also