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

On a neutral floor the ratings make Duke a 18.0-point favourite at about 71 possessions; at USC it is -14.6, at Duke -21.4 (from USC's side).

Neutral
-18.0
71.1 poss.
At USC
-14.6
71.1 poss.
At Duke
-21.4
71.1 poss.

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

MetricUSCDuke
Adjusted efficiency margin+6.193+31.41
Adjusted offence108.8131122.63
Adjusted defence102.77891.23
Adjusted tempo74.61467.6305
Raw offence106.0194120.34
Raw defence107.017994.03
Effective FG%50.4%22456.5%15
Turnover rate16.4%24415.0%131
Offensive rebound rate183.1%31104.1%143
Free-throw rate44.2%1038.0%102
Opponent eFG%49.7%9046.5%15
Opponent turnover rate15.1%20916.1%134
Defensive rebound rate-32.9%285-13.7%249
Opponent free-throw rate33.4%14123.1%2
Three-point attempt rate34.1%29243.6%97
Raw tempo73.52867.9279

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.