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

On a neutral floor the ratings make VCU a 3.6-point favourite at about 68 possessions; at VCU it is +6.9, at Northern Iowa +0.3 (from VCU's side).

Neutral
+3.6
67.9 poss.
At VCU
+6.9
67.9 poss.
At Northern Iowa
+0.3
67.9 poss.

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

MetricVCUNorthern Iowa
Adjusted efficiency margin+15.034+9.765
Adjusted offence116.042106.7170
Adjusted defence101.04997.118
Adjusted tempo71.49764.4364
Raw offence114.845105.2213
Raw defence102.57496.39
Effective FG%53.6%7953.2%96
Turnover rate14.3%8813.5%39
Offensive rebound rate85.2%215124.0%80
Free-throw rate42.0%3125.5%361
Opponent eFG%49.6%8447.4%29
Opponent turnover rate15.4%19116.8%98
Defensive rebound rate6.5%1851.6%210
Opponent free-throw rate34.6%17330.1%65
Three-point attempt rate43.8%9238.9%194
Raw tempo70.714164.8360

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.