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

On a neutral floor the ratings make LSU a 2.2-point favourite at about 71 possessions; at LSU it is +5.5, at Syracuse -1.2 (from LSU's side).

Neutral
+2.2
70.6 poss.
At LSU
+5.5
70.6 poss.
At Syracuse
-1.2
70.6 poss.

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

MetricLSUSyracuse
Adjusted efficiency margin+8.975+5.896
Adjusted offence115.052110.2101
Adjusted defence106.1151104.3113
Adjusted tempo69.918471.2107
Raw offence113.757106.9173
Raw defence110.3268106.8171
Effective FG%52.8%11552.7%118
Turnover rate14.8%12515.0%133
Offensive rebound rate186.7%2893.1%182
Free-throw rate40.9%5235.3%170
Opponent eFG%50.9%14849.9%99
Opponent turnover rate12.9%33815.3%196
Defensive rebound rate-52.6%30712.6%157
Opponent free-throw rate37.8%25432.9%126
Three-point attempt rate34.4%28637.3%221
Raw tempo71.59570.4159

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.