Count the trip before you count the score.

A team’s pace and efficiency describe the result of its possessions. A possession-style profile adds a little more context: how many trips the source recorded, how often those trips were tagged transition or assisted, and how much of the sample was marked garbage time.

The possession-style archive contains 2,836 team-season profiles across the 2019–26 NCAA source editions. The underlying releases contain millions of possession rows; Silvermine aggregates them by team and season while retaining the source receipt and team identity.

Read the five useful columns

Points per possession is recorded points divided by recorded trips. Possessions per game describes the source pace of the sample. Transition share and assisted share are the publisher’s binary possession flags; garbage-time share tells you how much of the sample carries that tag. These are context measures, so compare them with the same season and keep the total possession count visible.

Do not turn team context into player credit

A possession row belongs to a team in this archive. It does not say which player created, assisted or defended the trip, and lineup membership is not used to invent that attribution. Use the separate NCAA player box archive and lineup lab when the question is about personnel.

Use style to choose the next question

In a matchup, a large pace contrast can frame a transition-defense question, while a large assisted-share gap can point toward ball pressure and help rotations. Those are film prompts, not causal claims or new forecast features. The matchup workbench places the profile beside the published model and Four Factors so the numbers stay connected to a concrete preparation question.

Data attribution: SportsDataverse, CC BY 4.0. See the source receipts and model notebook.