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

On a neutral floor the ratings make Kentucky a 5.2-point favourite at about 69 possessions; at Kentucky it is +8.5, at Northwestern +1.9 (from Kentucky's side).

Neutral
+5.2
68.7 poss.
At Kentucky
+8.5
68.7 poss.
At Northwestern
+1.9
68.7 poss.

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

MetricKentuckyNorthwestern
Adjusted efficiency margin+17.127+9.567
Adjusted offence116.240112.473
Adjusted defence99.128102.982
Adjusted tempo69.719867.8294
Raw offence113.955109.9107
Raw defence104.7112108.0210
Effective FG%53.3%8951.7%159
Turnover rate14.4%9712.2%6
Offensive rebound rate98.6%161111.9%119
Free-throw rate37.3%12433.9%216
Opponent eFG%48.9%6151.0%156
Opponent turnover rate14.3%25815.9%155
Defensive rebound rate11.4%16511.3%166
Opponent free-throw rate36.2%21834.8%177
Three-point attempt rate39.7%17934.0%295
Raw tempo70.912666.7320

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.