Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Akron Men's Basketball

2026 Akron Zips Impact Games

Impact Games are games that can move a team up or down the RPI Ladder (increase or decrease RPI Rank).

Direct Impact Games are head-to-head matchups for the team.

Indirect Impact Games are games that include a previous opponent of the team and impact the team's SOS component of RPI.

Late in the season, Indirect Impact Games may only have a small impact on a team's RPI Rank.

Normally, a win will increase a team's RPI Rank and a loss will decrease it, but sometimes when playing a really strong opponent a win or a loss will increase RPI Rank and when playing a much weaker opponent a win or a loss will decrease RPI Rank.

RPI Points are approximate.

RPI Ladder

RPI	Team	RPI Pts Needed
1	Duke	920
17	Purdue	349
18	Arkansas	347
19	Nebraska	326
20	Saint John's	304
21	Iowa State	303
22	Saint Louis	297
23	Vanderbilt	290
24	BYU	236
25	Villanova	178
26	Louisville	122
27	Santa Clara	114
28	Miami (OH)	90
29	Yale	87
30	UCF	73
31	Tennessee	69
32	VCU	47
33	South Florida	46
34	Kentucky	23
35	SMU	5
36	Akron	-
37	North Carolina State	-12
38	Wisconsin	-42
39	Clemson	-58
40	Belmont	-67
41	San Diego State	-94
42	Boise State	-95
43	Virginia Tech	-100
44	Ohio State	-104
45	New Mexico	-111
46	Liberty	-114
47	Dayton	-126
48	McNeese	-130
49	Utah Valley	-139
50	Miami (FL)	-144
51	Tulsa	-149
52	Iowa	-158
53	Auburn	-159
54	Georgia	-165
55	Missouri	-170
75	Oklahoma State	-416
100	George Washington	-597
125	Wright State	-714
150	Mississippi State	-800
175	Kansas State	-907
200	Southern Miss	-1005
225	Montana	-1148
250	Sacred Heart	-1312
275	UC Riverside	-1473
300	Loyola-Chicago	-1573
325	Long Beach State	-1728
350	New Hampshire	-1981
357	Southern Indiana	-2154

Direct Impact Games

No Direct Impact Games today

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	Final		1	2	T
		Tulane (16-12, 8-8 American)	38	24	62
		South Florida (20-8, 13-3 American)	49	41	90

Tulane Wins:
Tulane Loses:

2.7 RPI Points
-3.6 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	T
		Southern Illinois (15-15, 10-10 Missouri Valley)	38	43	81
		Evansville (5-24, 3-17 Missouri Valley)	27	40	67

Evansville Wins:
Evansville Loses:

5.1 RPI Points
-1.1 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	T
		8 Purdue (22-7, 12-6 Big Ten)	31	43	74
		Ohio State (18-11, 10-8 Big Ten)	36	46	82

Purdue Wins:
Purdue Loses:

1.5 RPI Points
-4.7 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	T
		Murray State (20-11, 12-8 Missouri Valley)	35	43	78
		Bradley (19-11, 13-7 Missouri Valley)	36	51	87

Murray State Wins:
Murray State Loses:

2.1 RPI Points
-3.7 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	T
		Iona (18-13, 10-10 MAAC)	35	34	69
		Manhattan (11-19, 8-12 MAAC)	26	39	65

Iona Wins:
Iona Loses:

2.4 RPI Points
-3.4 RPI Points