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

On a neutral floor the ratings make Illinois a 15.5-point favourite at about 70 possessions; at Illinois it is +18.8, at Syracuse +12.1 (from Illinois's side).

Neutral
+15.5
70.0 poss.
At Illinois
+18.8
70.0 poss.
At Syracuse
+12.1
70.0 poss.

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

MetricIllinoisSyracuse
Adjusted efficiency margin+27.94+5.896
Adjusted offence125.01110.2101
Adjusted defence97.017104.3113
Adjusted tempo68.825271.2107
Raw offence123.61106.9173
Raw defence100.949106.8171
Effective FG%54.8%4252.7%118
Turnover rate12.6%1515.0%133
Offensive rebound rate110.4%12293.1%182
Free-throw rate34.0%20535.3%170
Opponent eFG%46.9%2149.9%99
Opponent turnover rate10.7%36415.3%196
Defensive rebound rate-15.1%25412.6%157
Opponent free-throw rate18.6%132.9%126
Three-point attempt rate50.0%1537.3%221
Raw tempo67.330270.4159

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.