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.
| NCAA Season 78 | |||||||||
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| Host school |  San Beda College | ||||||||
| Tagline | "Pursuing the Culture of Peace through Sports" | ||||||||
| General | |||||||||
| Seniors |  Letran Knights | ||||||||
| Juniors | Letran Squires | ||||||||
| Seniors' champions | |||||||||
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| Juniors' champions | |||||||||
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| (NT) = No tournament; (DS) = Demonstration Sport; (Ex) = Exhibition; | |||||||||
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 edit
Elimination round edit
| Pos | Team | W | L | PCT | GB | Qualification |
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| 1 |  San Sebastian Stags
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11 | 3 | .786 | — | Twice-to-beat in the semifinals |
| 2 |  Benilde Blazers
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10 | 4 | .714 | 1 | |
| 3 |  PCU Dolphins
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9 | 5 | .643[a] | 2 | Twice-to-win in the semifinals |
| 4 |  JRU Heavy Bombers
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9 | 5 | .643[a] | 2 | |
| 5 |  Mapúa Cardinals
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7 | 7 | .500[b] | 4 | |
| 6 | Letran Knights
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7 | 7 | .500[b] | 4 | |
| 7 | San Beda Red Lions (H)
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2 | 12 | .143 | 9 | |
| 8 |  Perpetual Altas
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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:
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:
Men's playoffs edit
| 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.