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

On a neutral floor the ratings make Houston a 7.7-point favourite at about 68 possessions; at SMU it is -4.4, at Houston -11.0 (from SMU's side).

Neutral
-7.7
68.3 poss.
At SMU
-4.4
68.3 poss.
At Houston
-11.0
68.3 poss.

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

MetricSMUHouston
Adjusted efficiency margin+14.239+25.56
Adjusted offence117.527117.231
Adjusted defence103.39091.74
Adjusted tempo70.714965.9350
Raw offence116.133115.340
Raw defence107.318694.34
Effective FG%55.9%2351.9%149
Turnover rate14.6%11111.5%1
Offensive rebound rate102.7%15083.0%229
Free-throw rate30.8%28526.1%355
Opponent eFG%51.5%17846.7%17
Opponent turnover rate15.7%17419.4%12
Defensive rebound rate-0.6%2163.9%200
Opponent free-throw rate32.1%10938.9%281
Three-point attempt rate35.8%25440.9%150
Raw tempo72.84866.6323

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.