Upcoming RPI Impact Games for LSU Men's Basketball

2026 LSU Tigers 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	Michigan	1407
25	Saint Louis	670
50	Iowa	255
54	Wisconsin	215
55	Tulsa	197
56	Troy	178
57	Indiana	178
58	Seton Hall	177
59	Arkansas State	164
60	Belmont	154
61	South Florida	132
62	UCLA	132
63	Texas A&M	108
64	Kent State	87
65	William & Mary	78
66	Arizona State	75
67	Oklahoma State	42
68	Utah Valley	35
69	Grand Canyon	20
70	Miami (FL)	14
71	Murray State	12
72	Hofstra	10
73	LSU	-
74	Washington	-5
75	Wake Forest	-13
76	Butler	-17
77	Creighton	-18
78	Notre Dame	-25
79	Oakland	-31
80	UNCW	-32
81	Missouri	-63
82	Middle Tennessee	-76
83	Winthrop	-81
84	Sam Houston State	-81
85	TCU	-86
86	West Virginia	-88
87	UTA	-96
88	George Washington	-98
89	Mercer	-164
90	Stephen F. Austin	-168
91	Saint Thomas	-175
92	Columbia	-178
100	Cincinnati	-212
125	Seattle University	-356
150	Maryland	-494
175	UIC	-569
200	New Mexico State	-681
225	Dartmouth	-873
250	Evansville	-1033
275	Le Moyne	-1172
300	South Dakota	-1290
325	Tennessee Tech	-1478
350	Fairleigh Dickinson	-1732
357	Chicago State	-1902

Direct Impact Games

	7:00 PM		1	2	T
		Mississippi State (10-10, 2-5 SEC)			0
		LSU (13-7, 1-6 SEC)			0

LSU Wins:
LSU Loses:

11 RPI Points
-147 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	7:00 PM		1	2	T
		Jacksonville State (7-9, 5-3 Conference USA)			0
		FIU (7-10, 3-6 Conference USA)			0

FIU Wins:
FIU Loses:

8.2 RPI Points
-5.7 RPI Points

	8:00 PM		1	2	T
		South Dakota State (7-11, 3-3 The Summit League)			0
		Omaha (6-12, 3-4 The Summit League)			0

Omaha Wins:
Omaha Loses:

8.8 RPI Points
-4.4 RPI Points

	7:30 PM		1	2	T
		Evansville (3-15, 1-8 Missouri Valley)			0
		Drake (9-10, 5-5 Missouri Valley)			0

Drake Wins:
Drake Loses:

6.6 RPI Points
-5.9 RPI Points

	9:00 PM		1	2	T
		19 Florida (14-6, 5-2 SEC)			0
		South Carolina (11-9, 2-5 SEC)			0

Florida Wins:
Florida Loses:

3.6 RPI Points
-8.3 RPI Points

	9:00 PM		1	2	T
		19 Florida (14-6, 5-2 SEC)			0
		South Carolina (11-9, 2-5 SEC)			0

South Carolina Wins:
South Carolina Loses:

5.4 RPI Points
-6.5 RPI Points

	8:30 PM		1	2	T
		DePaul (12-8, 4-5 Big East)			0
		Georgetown (10-10, 2-7 Big East)			0

DePaul Wins:
DePaul Loses:

4.8 RPI Points
-7.1 RPI Points