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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: Syracuse change (top 100 by AdjEM; any team via its page)
Team 2: Illinois change (top 100 by AdjEM; any team via its page)

On a neutral floor the ratings make Illinois a 15.5-point favourite at about 70 possessions; at Syracuse it is -12.1, at Illinois -18.8 (from Syracuse's side).

Neutral
-15.5
70.0 poss.
At Syracuse
-12.1
70.0 poss.
At Illinois
-18.8
70.0 poss.

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

MetricSyracuseIllinois
Adjusted efficiency margin+5.896+27.94
Adjusted offence110.2101125.01
Adjusted defence104.311397.017
Adjusted tempo71.210768.8252
Raw offence106.9173123.61
Raw defence106.8171100.949
Effective FG%52.7%11854.8%42
Turnover rate15.0%13312.6%15
Offensive rebound rate93.1%182110.4%122
Free-throw rate35.3%17034.0%205
Opponent eFG%49.9%9946.9%21
Opponent turnover rate15.3%19610.7%364
Defensive rebound rate12.6%157-15.1%254
Opponent free-throw rate32.9%12618.6%1
Three-point attempt rate37.3%22150.0%15
Raw tempo70.415967.3302

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.