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

On a neutral floor the ratings make Illinois a 12.2-point favourite at about 67 possessions; at Northern Iowa it is -9.0, at Illinois -15.4 (from Northern Iowa's side).

Neutral
-12.2
66.6 poss.
At Northern Iowa
-9.0
66.6 poss.
At Illinois
-15.4
66.6 poss.

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

MetricNorthern IowaIllinois
Adjusted efficiency margin+9.765+27.94
Adjusted offence106.7170125.01
Adjusted defence97.11897.017
Adjusted tempo64.436468.8252
Raw offence105.2213123.61
Raw defence96.39100.949
Effective FG%53.2%9654.8%42
Turnover rate13.5%3912.6%15
Offensive rebound rate124.0%80110.4%122
Free-throw rate25.5%36134.0%205
Opponent eFG%47.4%2946.9%21
Opponent turnover rate16.8%9810.7%364
Defensive rebound rate1.6%210-15.1%254
Opponent free-throw rate30.1%6518.6%1
Three-point attempt rate38.9%19450.0%15
Raw tempo64.836067.3302

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.