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

On a neutral floor the ratings make Northwestern a 0.3-point favourite at about 69 possessions; at Northwestern it is +3.6, at California -3.0 (from Northwestern's side).

Neutral
+0.3
69.3 poss.
At Northwestern
+3.6
69.3 poss.
At California
-3.0
69.3 poss.

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

MetricNorthwesternCalifornia
Adjusted efficiency margin+9.567+9.173
Adjusted offence112.473110.696
Adjusted defence102.982101.556
Adjusted tempo67.829470.9134
Raw offence109.9107109.5117
Raw defence108.0210102.776
Effective FG%51.7%15952.6%120
Turnover rate12.2%613.8%55
Offensive rebound rate111.9%119401.9%6
Free-throw rate33.9%21636.2%144
Opponent eFG%51.0%15649.4%79
Opponent turnover rate15.9%15514.9%220
Defensive rebound rate11.3%166-52.2%306
Opponent free-throw rate34.8%17735.8%208
Three-point attempt rate34.0%29543.1%112
Raw tempo66.732071.789

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.