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

On a neutral floor the ratings make SMU a 3.6-point favourite at about 71 possessions; at California it is -0.2, at SMU -7.0 (from California's side).

Neutral
-3.6
70.8 poss.
At California
-0.2
70.8 poss.
At SMU
-7.0
70.8 poss.

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

MetricCaliforniaSMU
Adjusted efficiency margin+9.173+14.239
Adjusted offence110.696117.527
Adjusted defence101.556103.390
Adjusted tempo70.913470.7149
Raw offence109.5117116.133
Raw defence102.776107.3186
Effective FG%52.6%12055.9%23
Turnover rate13.8%5514.6%111
Offensive rebound rate401.9%6102.7%150
Free-throw rate36.2%14430.8%285
Opponent eFG%49.4%7951.5%178
Opponent turnover rate14.9%22015.7%174
Defensive rebound rate-52.2%306-0.6%216
Opponent free-throw rate35.8%20832.1%109
Three-point attempt rate43.1%11235.8%254
Raw tempo71.78972.848

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.