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

On a neutral floor the ratings make Kentucky a 6.4-point favourite at about 69 possessions; at Illinois State it is -3.1, at Kentucky -9.7 (from Illinois State's side).

Neutral
-6.4
68.9 poss.
At Illinois State
-3.1
68.9 poss.
At Kentucky
-9.7
68.9 poss.

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

MetricIllinois StateKentucky
Adjusted efficiency margin+7.882+17.127
Adjusted offence109.1125116.240
Adjusted defence101.35299.128
Adjusted tempo68.227469.7198
Raw offence108.5137113.955
Raw defence101.557104.7112
Effective FG%53.7%7853.3%89
Turnover rate15.8%20214.4%97
Offensive rebound rate85.8%21298.6%161
Free-throw rate31.6%26437.3%124
Opponent eFG%49.7%9248.9%61
Opponent turnover rate15.0%21714.3%258
Defensive rebound rate13.0%15511.4%165
Opponent free-throw rate32.3%11436.2%218
Three-point attempt rate43.3%10839.7%179
Raw tempo68.425970.9126

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.