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

On a neutral floor the ratings make California a 0.1-point favourite at about 70 possessions; at California it is +3.5, at LSU -3.2 (from California's side).

Neutral
+0.1
70.4 poss.
At California
+3.5
70.4 poss.
At LSU
-3.2
70.4 poss.

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

MetricCaliforniaLSU
Adjusted efficiency margin+9.173+8.975
Adjusted offence110.696115.052
Adjusted defence101.556106.1151
Adjusted tempo70.913469.9184
Raw offence109.5117113.757
Raw defence102.776110.3268
Effective FG%52.6%12052.8%115
Turnover rate13.8%5514.8%125
Offensive rebound rate401.9%6186.7%28
Free-throw rate36.2%14440.9%52
Opponent eFG%49.4%7950.9%148
Opponent turnover rate14.9%22012.9%338
Defensive rebound rate-52.2%306-52.6%307
Opponent free-throw rate35.8%20837.8%254
Three-point attempt rate43.1%11234.4%286
Raw tempo71.78971.595

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.