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

On a neutral floor the ratings make Kentucky a 5.7-point favourite at about 70 possessions; at Kentucky it is +9.0, at LSU +2.3 (from Kentucky's side).

Neutral
+5.7
69.8 poss.
At Kentucky
+9.0
69.8 poss.
At LSU
+2.3
69.8 poss.

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

MetricKentuckyLSU
Adjusted efficiency margin+17.127+8.975
Adjusted offence116.240115.052
Adjusted defence99.128106.1151
Adjusted tempo69.719869.9184
Raw offence113.955113.757
Raw defence104.7112110.3268
Effective FG%53.3%8952.8%115
Turnover rate14.4%9714.8%125
Offensive rebound rate98.6%161186.7%28
Free-throw rate37.3%12440.9%52
Opponent eFG%48.9%6150.9%148
Opponent turnover rate14.3%25812.9%338
Defensive rebound rate11.4%165-52.6%307
Opponent free-throw rate36.2%21837.8%254
Three-point attempt rate39.7%17934.4%286
Raw tempo70.912671.595

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.