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

On a neutral floor the ratings make LSU a 2.0-point favourite at about 72 possessions; at USC it is +1.4, at LSU -5.5 (from USC's side).

Neutral
-2.0
72.2 poss.
At USC
+1.4
72.2 poss.
At LSU
-5.5
72.2 poss.

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

MetricUSCLSU
Adjusted efficiency margin+6.193+8.975
Adjusted offence108.8131115.052
Adjusted defence102.778106.1151
Adjusted tempo74.61469.9184
Raw offence106.0194113.757
Raw defence107.0179110.3268
Effective FG%50.4%22452.8%115
Turnover rate16.4%24414.8%125
Offensive rebound rate183.1%31186.7%28
Free-throw rate44.2%1040.9%52
Opponent eFG%49.7%9050.9%148
Opponent turnover rate15.1%20912.9%338
Defensive rebound rate-32.9%285-52.6%307
Opponent free-throw rate33.4%14137.8%254
Three-point attempt rate34.1%29234.4%286
Raw tempo73.52871.595

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.