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Compare College Basketball Teams

In progress. College basketball is still being built and is not in the navigation. The ratings are ours and are shown with the date they were fitted; they are not graded in public.

How would two teams match up, by how much, and at what pace — and where does each rank?

2025-26 seasonthrough ratings as of 2026-04-06most recent completed season — 2026-27 has no ratings yet

Team 1: NC State change (top 100 by AdjEM; any team via its page)
Team 2: Northwestern change (top 100 by AdjEM; any team via its page)

On a neutral floor the ratings make NC State a 3.7-point favourite at about 70 possessions; at NC State it is +7.1, at Northwestern +0.4 (from NC State's side).

Neutral
+3.7
69.6 poss.
At NC State
+7.1
69.6 poss.
At Northwestern
+0.4
69.6 poss.

Margins are from NC State's side, from the snapshot of 2026-04-06.

MetricNC StateNorthwestern
Adjusted efficiency margin+14.936+9.567
Adjusted offence118.518112.473
Adjusted defence103.696102.982
Adjusted tempo71.49667.8294
Raw offence117.226109.9107
Raw defence107.5193108.0210
Effective FG%55.2%3651.7%159
Turnover rate12.5%1412.2%6
Offensive rebound rate60.3%330111.9%119
Free-throw rate35.1%17633.9%216
Opponent eFG%52.7%25451.0%156
Opponent turnover rate17.2%7615.9%155
Defensive rebound rate40.2%2111.3%166
Opponent free-throw rate37.7%25034.8%177
Three-point attempt rate43.6%9834.0%295
Raw tempo71.310766.7320

How this is measured

The projection is the existing projectMargin from lib/cbb/ratings: (AdjEM difference ± the fitted home advantage) × expected possessions ÷ 100, with pace the mean of the two adjusted tempos. It uses the latest snapshot, so it describes the two teams as rated on 2026-04-06 — it is not a line and it is not graded here.

Ranks are out of 364 rated teams, 1 = best; bold marks the better of the two where a metric has a better end.