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

On a neutral floor the ratings make Illinois State a 1.2-point favourite at about 71 possessions; at USC it is +2.2, at Illinois State -4.7 (from USC's side).

Neutral
-1.2
71.4 poss.
At USC
+2.2
71.4 poss.
At Illinois State
-4.7
71.4 poss.

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

MetricUSCIllinois State
Adjusted efficiency margin+6.193+7.882
Adjusted offence108.8131109.1125
Adjusted defence102.778101.352
Adjusted tempo74.61468.2274
Raw offence106.0194108.5137
Raw defence107.0179101.557
Effective FG%50.4%22453.7%78
Turnover rate16.4%24415.8%202
Offensive rebound rate183.1%3185.8%212
Free-throw rate44.2%1031.6%264
Opponent eFG%49.7%9049.7%92
Opponent turnover rate15.1%20915.0%217
Defensive rebound rate-32.9%28513.0%155
Opponent free-throw rate33.4%14132.3%114
Three-point attempt rate34.1%29243.3%108
Raw tempo73.52868.4259

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.