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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: Northern Iowa change (top 100 by AdjEM; any team via its page)
Team 2: Michigan State change (top 100 by AdjEM; any team via its page)

On a neutral floor the ratings make Michigan State a 7.9-point favourite at about 67 possessions; at Northern Iowa it is -4.7, at Michigan State -11.1 (from Northern Iowa's side).

Neutral
-7.9
66.8 poss.
At Northern Iowa
-4.7
66.8 poss.
At Michigan State
-11.1
66.8 poss.

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

MetricNorthern IowaMichigan State
Adjusted efficiency margin+9.765+21.413
Adjusted offence106.7170117.033
Adjusted defence97.11895.514
Adjusted tempo64.436469.2222
Raw offence105.2213115.241
Raw defence96.39100.642
Effective FG%53.2%9653.7%77
Turnover rate13.5%3915.7%198
Offensive rebound rate124.0%80138.7%59
Free-throw rate25.5%36136.0%154
Opponent eFG%47.4%2948.5%50
Opponent turnover rate16.8%9813.7%305
Defensive rebound rate1.6%210-419.0%358
Opponent free-throw rate30.1%6530.3%71
Three-point attempt rate38.9%19436.1%248
Raw tempo64.836068.2263

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.