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

On a neutral floor the ratings make Kentucky a 6.4-point favourite at about 69 possessions; at Kentucky it is +9.7, at Illinois State +3.1 (from Kentucky's side).

Neutral
+6.4
68.9 poss.
At Kentucky
+9.7
68.9 poss.
At Illinois State
+3.1
68.9 poss.

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

MetricKentuckyIllinois State
Adjusted efficiency margin+17.127+7.882
Adjusted offence116.240109.1125
Adjusted defence99.128101.352
Adjusted tempo69.719868.2274
Raw offence113.955108.5137
Raw defence104.7112101.557
Effective FG%53.3%8953.7%78
Turnover rate14.4%9715.8%202
Offensive rebound rate98.6%16185.8%212
Free-throw rate37.3%12431.6%264
Opponent eFG%48.9%6149.7%92
Opponent turnover rate14.3%25815.0%217
Defensive rebound rate11.4%16513.0%155
Opponent free-throw rate36.2%21832.3%114
Three-point attempt rate39.7%17943.3%108
Raw tempo70.912668.4259

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.